Pure theatre.
Apr. 30th, 2022 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rogueslayer452++ I've been in a weird headspace lately. Nothing bad (no worse than usual, at least), it's just that kind of off feeling, like you're off-center somehow and don't know precisely how or why. Of course, I'm also dealing with seasonal allergies which have been going on and off for about a little over a week now, so that could be a contributing factor.
++ Because of this weird headspace I ended up kind of revisiting some fandoms of mine that I don't really talk much about -- Doom Patrol, Legion, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, all fantastic shows in their own right that are often underappreciated, imho -- I even revisited some horror (early 00s horror movies, cheesy remakes of old classics specifically like The Haunting and The House on Haunted Hill) and it's like, some might say they're not good but I don't care I love them anyway because they just have that very specific early 00s horror vibe that I cannot deny is entertaining. And it's not even like a planned revisiting for any of these, it's just once I get a hankering to watch one thing I then end up going down the rabbit hole, which happens every so often.
++ The City of Musicals is a Chinese variety show where contestants are performing from a wide range of musicals, and while it is a competition of sorts, the main goal seems to be introducing different kinds of musicals to a larger audience via their performances. I knew about this variety show due to an c-actor I like, Wang Zhuocheng (known mostly for Jiang Cheng in The Untamed), and being aware of how much of a musical theatre kid he is I know he is in his element and living his best life doing this show. His first performance was of a Romeo and Juliet duet, which was nice, but I think his second performance has become his most notable one so far. It's from Mozart L'Opera Rock, a French rock opera about Mozart, a musical I had no idea about. What's interesting is that the song that is performed from it, "L'assasymphonie", is translated and sung from French to Chinese, and they went hard, harder than the French version (at least the versions I found and listened to, anyway). And yes, their rendition of the song has been stuck in my head for some days now. Not that I'm complaining, of course.
I've seen some of the other performances from the variety show and they do some very notable and recognizable songs from familiar musicals, like from The Phantom of the Opera and Mamma Mia!, most of them sung in English, but I also like that there's lesser known musicals being added in, too.
++ Because of this weird headspace I ended up kind of revisiting some fandoms of mine that I don't really talk much about -- Doom Patrol, Legion, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, all fantastic shows in their own right that are often underappreciated, imho -- I even revisited some horror (early 00s horror movies, cheesy remakes of old classics specifically like The Haunting and The House on Haunted Hill) and it's like, some might say they're not good but I don't care I love them anyway because they just have that very specific early 00s horror vibe that I cannot deny is entertaining. And it's not even like a planned revisiting for any of these, it's just once I get a hankering to watch one thing I then end up going down the rabbit hole, which happens every so often.
++ The City of Musicals is a Chinese variety show where contestants are performing from a wide range of musicals, and while it is a competition of sorts, the main goal seems to be introducing different kinds of musicals to a larger audience via their performances. I knew about this variety show due to an c-actor I like, Wang Zhuocheng (known mostly for Jiang Cheng in The Untamed), and being aware of how much of a musical theatre kid he is I know he is in his element and living his best life doing this show. His first performance was of a Romeo and Juliet duet, which was nice, but I think his second performance has become his most notable one so far. It's from Mozart L'Opera Rock, a French rock opera about Mozart, a musical I had no idea about. What's interesting is that the song that is performed from it, "L'assasymphonie", is translated and sung from French to Chinese, and they went hard, harder than the French version (at least the versions I found and listened to, anyway). And yes, their rendition of the song has been stuck in my head for some days now. Not that I'm complaining, of course.
I've seen some of the other performances from the variety show and they do some very notable and recognizable songs from familiar musicals, like from The Phantom of the Opera and Mamma Mia!, most of them sung in English, but I also like that there's lesser known musicals being added in, too.
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Date: 2022-05-02 12:50 pm (UTC)I watched Haunting of Hill House for the first time not too long ago and despite being scared, I thought it was absolutely brilliant.
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Date: 2022-05-02 10:21 pm (UTC)What's interesting is that, after rewatching The Haunting, which was a very loose adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, that both the movie and the Netflix series are deviations of the novel but in different ways. It's just that the Netflix series benefited from being a show that gradually unfolded the story and got us intrigued and connected with the characters more than the 1999 movie. Even though the Netflix series had a stronger story to tell, I still have a soft spot for the movie.