iggy880
04-03-2009, 05:08 AM
Ok, so I'll admit I'm a really open minded and welcoming person to all creativity and ideas no matter how much they go against both the general, and my normal view and style(something from my family and upbringing) I mean, I'll see just about any movie, partially because I'm a film student, I'll go to art shows of any random style, I enjoy theater and plays of all styles and I even read(something I find is lost on my generation and don't think its just my circle of friends)
So, as a college student I was again required to take a class to garner a Fine Arts Credit, something I generally like. And wouldn't you know it, my options were limited to stuff like classes for the appreciation of certain arts, I couldn't do technical theater as I did the last 2 years in high school, so I took Theater Appreciation. Now, that is a lot of back info, but it leads up to what my point is...I go into the class, same open mind and enjoyment of plays and theater and find that like 90% doesn't really know anything about theater or even like plays. Now it isn't that horrible to not know about or like theater but really, 90% of like a 30-40 person class and they aren't even open minded about the plays we go out and see.
Now, the people I travel with(plays are mostly off campus, far off campus) fall into that, but they're good people, as is most of the class, so I let it go. The straw that broke the camel's back was when we went to the show tonight. Tonight we went to see our school's production of a great story that I have loved the film of for years, The Rocky Horror Show, one of the dirtiest, most absurdly funny things ever. As I'm in the lobby talking to classmates, amongst the concession stand people, ticket window people and users and some audience members in traditional lingerie, I see a lot of uneasy faces, and just talking to people find they may never even heard of it, most never even seen the film and nearly all don't know what to expect.
I mean, I'm sitting in the theater before the show with a friend in the class trying to explain some of it, and he doesn't see the genius, doesn't get it at all. I mean, throughout the show(which was really well done actually and a lot of fun) you hear all the knowledgeable/die hard fan people on one side of the theater singing, interacting/shouting out during the play(if you've never seen the play, its a tradition and strongly encouraged) standing up and doing the Time Warp, and using the things in their prop bags. What is going on for the most part on the other side, my side, the side made up mainly of my class? Quiet, confused watching and disgust at the costumes and and ****-erotic scenes. I mean, really? The songs alone are beyond funny, energetic, contagious and brilliant and they never seemed to enjoy them(not even the Time Warp, and I dare anyone to not hear that song, and/or see the whole scene that it makes up and not get caught up) Not to mention that we're college students, I mean this should be right up our alley. Sure, you may not know the play well enough to shout out things in preparation for lines(especially the traditional things) as people who know it and are fans do and did, but you're watching a play that is completely insane and making fun of itself and a genre, a play making dirty jokes and sex scenes throughout(including a lot of gay humor) and you are even told to call out and you don't? There's something wrong with that.
I think there's something wrong with our society when even college students cannot get into a zany, dirty, sexy play/film/story because of being so cut off from this type of thing. I mean, are you so insecure about your sexuality that you are scared of men in lingerie acting crazy, including gay sex jokes even? Even when the same show guarantees plenty of time with women in short skirts, skimpy clothes and lingerie?(let me just say that the girl playing Columbia I think was beyond hot, and should be worth seeing men in lingerie for even the most uptight guy) I mean, I'll admit I'm a bit to restrained to show up in drag(or take part in the show which would require drag too) but I'm not so uptight that I am against seeing it in a show. I mean, I respect all of those actors and actresses so much more then I did before because they went through with it. In fact, I was worried about the show being bad because I didn't think they'd get enough men willing to go all out that it would lose the effect, or enough women comfortable enough with their appearance. So...yeah I just wanted to rant about this. I mean, I was even unsure if I'd get as into the show as I did as I hadn't seen the film in a couple years, and was unsure they'd be totally committed, but really no one with a brain could be let down by those contagious songs, outrageous lewdness, and lingerie(especially the ladies :naughty:)
So, as a college student I was again required to take a class to garner a Fine Arts Credit, something I generally like. And wouldn't you know it, my options were limited to stuff like classes for the appreciation of certain arts, I couldn't do technical theater as I did the last 2 years in high school, so I took Theater Appreciation. Now, that is a lot of back info, but it leads up to what my point is...I go into the class, same open mind and enjoyment of plays and theater and find that like 90% doesn't really know anything about theater or even like plays. Now it isn't that horrible to not know about or like theater but really, 90% of like a 30-40 person class and they aren't even open minded about the plays we go out and see.
Now, the people I travel with(plays are mostly off campus, far off campus) fall into that, but they're good people, as is most of the class, so I let it go. The straw that broke the camel's back was when we went to the show tonight. Tonight we went to see our school's production of a great story that I have loved the film of for years, The Rocky Horror Show, one of the dirtiest, most absurdly funny things ever. As I'm in the lobby talking to classmates, amongst the concession stand people, ticket window people and users and some audience members in traditional lingerie, I see a lot of uneasy faces, and just talking to people find they may never even heard of it, most never even seen the film and nearly all don't know what to expect.
I mean, I'm sitting in the theater before the show with a friend in the class trying to explain some of it, and he doesn't see the genius, doesn't get it at all. I mean, throughout the show(which was really well done actually and a lot of fun) you hear all the knowledgeable/die hard fan people on one side of the theater singing, interacting/shouting out during the play(if you've never seen the play, its a tradition and strongly encouraged) standing up and doing the Time Warp, and using the things in their prop bags. What is going on for the most part on the other side, my side, the side made up mainly of my class? Quiet, confused watching and disgust at the costumes and and ****-erotic scenes. I mean, really? The songs alone are beyond funny, energetic, contagious and brilliant and they never seemed to enjoy them(not even the Time Warp, and I dare anyone to not hear that song, and/or see the whole scene that it makes up and not get caught up) Not to mention that we're college students, I mean this should be right up our alley. Sure, you may not know the play well enough to shout out things in preparation for lines(especially the traditional things) as people who know it and are fans do and did, but you're watching a play that is completely insane and making fun of itself and a genre, a play making dirty jokes and sex scenes throughout(including a lot of gay humor) and you are even told to call out and you don't? There's something wrong with that.
I think there's something wrong with our society when even college students cannot get into a zany, dirty, sexy play/film/story because of being so cut off from this type of thing. I mean, are you so insecure about your sexuality that you are scared of men in lingerie acting crazy, including gay sex jokes even? Even when the same show guarantees plenty of time with women in short skirts, skimpy clothes and lingerie?(let me just say that the girl playing Columbia I think was beyond hot, and should be worth seeing men in lingerie for even the most uptight guy) I mean, I'll admit I'm a bit to restrained to show up in drag(or take part in the show which would require drag too) but I'm not so uptight that I am against seeing it in a show. I mean, I respect all of those actors and actresses so much more then I did before because they went through with it. In fact, I was worried about the show being bad because I didn't think they'd get enough men willing to go all out that it would lose the effect, or enough women comfortable enough with their appearance. So...yeah I just wanted to rant about this. I mean, I was even unsure if I'd get as into the show as I did as I hadn't seen the film in a couple years, and was unsure they'd be totally committed, but really no one with a brain could be let down by those contagious songs, outrageous lewdness, and lingerie(especially the ladies :naughty:)