With our ASL Opera project picking up steam, I was curious to know just how the “High Art” of Opera has influenced mainstream American culture over the last 50 years or so, and I was surprised to learn, via ChatGPT-4 AI, just how deeply many of the most famous Opera melodies made their way into our shared childhoods and our culturally maintained totems of relevance!
The American Musical Theatre needs to have an Aesthetic Morality — because it does not yet have any sort of directional mandate for excellence — other than the annual, presumptive, parade of giving out incestuous Tony and Drama Desk awards to their own for shared masturbatory adoration.
Continue reading → Why the American Musical Theatre Must Have an Aesthetic Morality
Adaptation is difficult to get right. You must honor the original intent of the underlying work while enhancing that work in a new retelling. Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” is a perfect example of how two adaptations of the song have failed miserably as music videos. The first culprit is an amateur YouTube video with 2.8 million viewings so far — and the second absconder is: Eminem himself.
Continue reading → Misinterpretation in Adaptation: Eminem Messes Up Love the Way You Lie
Adapting one piece of art from one thing into another is a dying craft because too many people believe they are capable of making that transition seamless and artistically irrevocable when they are really only able to serve their own selfish aesthetic.
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