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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Madagascar
Pittsburgh in the Round: Stage 62 presents Madagascar A Musical Adventure. For the next two weekends, your favorite DreamWorks characters are live on stage, singing, dancing and cheering up and down the aisles of the theater and across the stage.
Weirdly enough, I think that using such a popular movie like Madagascar to comment on todays political world might just be an ingenious idea. Children's movies are made to tell a story that teaches children lessons, and often times the people that need to hear those stories are not just children, they're adults, the people who are bosses, the people who run countries. If you think about king Julian in his essence, he's nothing but an unaccepting, bitter, and rude tyrant, remind you of anyone? Similar to how the new musical spongebob is about a person (or sponge) who goes out of his way to be a hero when no one thinks anything of him, Madagascar comments on the immigrant experience and the measures one will take to escape captivity. By creating subtle pieces of art, the message comes across so much clearer. I hope that this trend continues, and there are more stories that have a micro problem, but cover a macro frame.
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Weirdly enough, I think that using such a popular movie like Madagascar to comment on todays political world might just be an ingenious idea. Children's movies are made to tell a story that teaches children lessons, and often times the people that need to hear those stories are not just children, they're adults, the people who are bosses, the people who run countries. If you think about king Julian in his essence, he's nothing but an unaccepting, bitter, and rude tyrant, remind you of anyone? Similar to how the new musical spongebob is about a person (or sponge) who goes out of his way to be a hero when no one thinks anything of him, Madagascar comments on the immigrant experience and the measures one will take to escape captivity. By creating subtle pieces of art, the message comes across so much clearer. I hope that this trend continues, and there are more stories that have a micro problem, but cover a macro frame.
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