Am I hearing back-to-back Rice/John songs on the radio show? This is not a good day to torture me.
Elmore, re: Dearest Enemy - it may seem to the readers like we're disagreeing when we're not. I said that operettas are set in a far-off time and place and you said Dearest Enemy is set in New York. We're both correct: It's set in New York at the time of the American revolution!
But I'm not really understanding the rest of your list. Are you saying that these musicals, such as A Chorus Line and Chicago are operettas? How so? Do operettas incorporate dance to tell much of their stories? Do you find something operetta-like in all those John Kander 1920s vamps? Or Hamlisch's contemporary pop?
Obviously, different people use different words different ways... including the French!
The one-and-only entertaining moment in Dracula was Kelli O'Hara's 3 seconds of nakedness (Errico didn't reveal anything the night I attended, but I may have dozed off). Making more and more people take off their clothes may be the only way that show can entertain the public. And I do mean the public more commonly found at strip clubs.
And, to be fair, the nudity shouldn't be limited to the women. If you want to see anything other than usually-covered body parts, such as a story, creepiness, lyrics, music, special effects, dialogue, stay away from Dracula. And there are better (cheaper) strip clubs around.
Whew. Came close to a Freudian typo when I wrote "public"
