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Right, then. Starlight Express: Webber's reference to the Cinderella story, with Electra as an evil stepsister who don't get none. Gee. Electra. Male. Sings AC/DC. Handsome Prince. Female. Nope, nothing to be politicised there. Dinah, then. Woman as dining car. Or, Pearl. Woman as observation platform. With men as engines of various potency and class.
Little Shop of Horrors: The entire sadistic dentist sequence? And the fact that, in many ways, the nice guy, the lovable good ol' Seymour is in fact a not very good person at all. He's just meeker. Also, the polarizing effect of 'Suddenly, Seymour'.
Aspects of Love: Intergenerational romantic entanglements aren't quite unpoliticised at this point in our general eurocentric culture, are they? I'd presume not. And seventeen years of people fucking up their lives by, well, fucking or not fucking, is something unto itself.
Cats: Stolen from someone's review online: 'The magical cat succeeds in bringing back Old Deuteronomy.' Named? That's right, Mistoffelees. Also, the general run of an invisible nonhuman tribe operating the world for us. |
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