{"id":1402,"date":"2007-05-10T01:14:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T08:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2007-05-10T01:15:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T08:15:46","slug":"a-cry-from-the-heart-for-every-chip-on-its-shoulder-burg-in-america-stage-true-drama-in-the-theatre-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1402\/a-cry-from-the-heart-for-every-chip-on-its-shoulder-burg-in-america-stage-true-drama-in-the-theatre-darling\/","title":{"rendered":"A cry from the heart for every chip-on-its-shoulder burg in America: Stage true drama in the theatre, darling"},"content":{"rendered":"

We saw a performance piece called “Love, Janis”<\/i> last week. It wouldn’t do to call it a play. It was more of a fictionalized chronicle of Pearl cavorting with her inner child while blasting through her greatest hits at top volume. The music was beyond excellent, and the interstitial crap was no worse than Ray<\/i> or Walk The Line<\/i> or The Doors<\/i> — no act of evil or self-destruction is ever your fault if your records chart well. Creepy and dopey (no pun intended), maudlin and mopey, but ultimately nothing. If they had cut all that and doubled up on the music, it would have been a knock-out tribute show.<\/p>\n

Here’s the beef: Was this raucous rock ‘n’ roll encomium performed at an Indian casino, alternating with the Tina Turner and Michael Jackson impersonators? No, alas. Was it the 8 and 10 o’clock headliner act at an off-Strip locals resort in Las Vegas? Guess again. No, “Love, Janis”<\/i> is part of this season’s “drama” from The Arizona Theatre Company, one of eight “plays” to be presented this season to audiences of rich white people, whose seats will be graciously subsidized by poor black and brown people.<\/p>\n

This is “theauhtuh, dahling,” an allegedly high-brow undertaking undertaken in that high-brow “performance centre” downtown — itself graciously subsidized by people who only make it downtown when they are dispossessed by fate and taxes. And although I am speaking of Phoenix, particularly, everything I’m saying goes for every chip-on-its-shoulder burg in America. “We can’t be a true<\/i> city without theauhtuh, dahling,” even if that “theauhtuh, dahling” turns out to be a complete joke.<\/p>\n

What’s the real<\/i> point of this ugly charade? Wealth is waste, but how can one justify the indulgence of a thousand-dollar gown if there is no “theauhtuh, dahling?” No symphony? No opera? No ballet? None of these boondoggles is profitable, and that by itself is an excellent argument for doing away with them. Mozart can’t make money, but neither can “pops” music conducted by TV’s Doc Severinsen. Cage fighting turns a buck, as do rodeo and tractor pulls, but how can one wear a designer Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We saw a performance piece called “Love, Janis” last week. It wouldn’t do to call it a play. It was more of a fictionalized chronicle of Pearl cavorting with her inner child while blasting through her greatest hits at top volume. 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