Stage | The Guardian: Most biodramas about musicians sing from the same hymn sheet: chart the rise to fame and any fall from grace, flit between studio and stage, make room for relevant lovers and demons. Then add the hits. Two new musicals may find Céline Dion belting out My Heart Will Go On and Dolly Parton warbling I Will Always Love You.
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For the past few months now I've been seeing people on Instagram and tiktok sending in and posting auditions for this new Dolly Parton musical auditioning for the role of Dolly Parton. I think this is super interesting to see people auditioning to be this next star you know to portray Dolly Parton and Celine Dion who are such big characters in the music industry and you can't replace them or you can't exactly cast them perfectly because we'll look at them. It also is interesting to see people that I know applying for these roles. It just shows you how small the performance world is. But I love Dolly Parton and Celine Dion. I think they're iconic and their music is like none other. I love 9 to 5 the musical and the album so I think it's super exciting that they're going to be these big musicals about them and I really do look forward to seeing them.
I felt the same way about the Neil Diamond musical and a few others, I am not digging the life story, parody streak so far. I mean I guess I should be happy that it is not an adaptation of a movie turned into a musical but I can draw parallels between the two. Although with Celine Dion’s being a parody of Titanic it may just be a remake of the remake of the original film that everyone loved. I know that Dolly Parton has always had Dollywood so I am honestly a little surprised that she is making a musical for theatres as well. I mean to each their own but I just wonder what happened to good writing and good stories. When I go see a show I want something that makes me happy and feel warm or I want something that makes me think but I have not really seen any of that not just in theatre but especially in movies. It's awful, I do not know who the screenwriters are at this point but I love movies and as years go by and scripts keep deteriorating I am continually losing hope in the human's ability to tell stories well. I just wish that producers would stop going for the name or the safe bet and discover the next Steven Sondheim or Alan Menkin so theatre can make it out of the script/music rut it seems to be in.
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