![]() ![]() ![]() Well, I'll tell you: for me, he made sense of this. He was filming the actual stage production, at the Belasco the same cast, the same material. Lee is an admirable filmmaker who finds a way to make everything interesting but still, he did not have the luxury of preparing a new screenplay and going into the studio or out on location. This left me with mixed feelings when it came time to pop Spike Lee's Passing Strange: The Musical into the DVD player. This was not my reaction at Passing Strange I found the score loud and unsettling, the staging unfocused, and the story less than involving. (This on three separate occasions, Off-Broadway, at a final preview uptown, and during awards season). Even so, I found the kinetic energy of the material and the staging instantly involving. To bring Spring Awakening back into the discussion, that show featured a score which was decidedly not my type of music. A brave new musical, this Passing Strange but foreign and uninvolving. (Much the same was said, at the very same moment, about songwriter/star Lin-Manuel Miranda and his In the Heights, but that is irrelevant to the present discussion.) Other playgoers found Passing Strange to be admirable but far from brilliant a third set just plain didn't like it. To some it was the bravest and brightest new musical to appear since Spring Awakening, featuring a one-named songwriter/star called Stew, who brought a new and relevant voice to Broadway. Passing Strange came to Broadway in the winter of 2008 and immediately stirred things up. ![]()
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