new Broadway musical… “Putting Hardware Together”
I enjoy Billy Joel’s music. There, I said it in public. I used to be too cool to admit it, but no longer. I liked Joel’s schmaltz as a teenager before I graduated to heavier stuff, so it always reminds me of those years. But seriously, I still enjoy his music today in moderate doses.
My parents, brother and his girlfriend were here and we went to see the “Movin’ Out” musical from Broadway that is now showing in London. There’s a band on a moving platform, a singer who’s no real match to Joel and a bunch of dancers on stage. You can see it’s a major production, but there wasn’t much substance there; some key hits were glaringly missing too. It had a loose story connecting the dance segments (Brenda and Eddy from “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” fame) with Love, war, betrayal… the usual story, portrayed though the lyrics and dance. What can I say? That just doesn’t touch me; I just can’t seem to appreciate this stuff. All I can think of is that engineers are just as talented as these dancers, but no one is buying tickets to watch them work, or clap, or give a standing ovation. I just wish. Somehow “Live FPGA verilog coding” show on Broadway wouldn’t survive more than 10 weeks :)
Well, “Brenda” was quite pleasing to look at, so that was a plus. However, there were two soft-porn themed segments that were a little over the top to my taste. But “I’ve let it slide” while noticing that one of those segments was during “Captain Jack” with this verse cut out:
Your sister’s gone out, she’s on a date
And you just sit at home and masturbate
Your phone is gonna ring soon, but you just can’t wait
For that call, hmmSo you stand on the corner in your new English clothes
And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes
Oh, but still your finger’s gonna pick your nose
After all, hmm
Hmmm, indeed! Mostly naked women molested on stage, and singing about masturbation and nose picking is just too much to handle. OK.