I thought I was all cool and artistic because we would watch beaches all the time and I pretended this song completely enraptured me lol...now I'm almost 32 and still couldn't tell ya wtf it's about, but it seems like a send up of those deep and meaningful off off off Broadway plays...like the ones every character in a long running sitcom placed in New York will inevitably get dragged to buy an actor friend lol
@seth101007 You've got it. It's a pastiche sendup of avant garde musical theatre. It's a pretty narrowly targeted laugh, but for Midler and Warren it would have probably been lots of fun to write - having taken part in that actor-friend-drag-you-to-some-weird-show cycle themselves.
@seth101007 You've got it. It's a pastiche sendup of avant garde musical theatre. It's a pretty narrowly targeted laugh, but for Midler and Warren it would have probably been lots of fun to write - having taken part in that actor-friend-drag-you-to-some-weird-show cycle themselves.
From within the musical's internal logic, the song is an abstract science-fiction-inflected demonstration of the inevitable horrors of Regan-era industrialism as imagined by Regan-era liberals. The film skewers both, which is funny if you're familiar with the theatre of that era and it's politics - and is just plain hard to follow if you're not.
From within the musical's internal logic, the song is an abstract science-fiction-inflected demonstration of the inevitable horrors of Regan-era industrialism as imagined by Regan-era liberals. The film skewers both, which is funny if you're familiar with the theatre of that era and it's politics - and is just plain hard to follow if you're not.
I'm old, I was there! We all thought it was mighty clever at the time. ^_^
I thought I was all cool and artistic because we would watch beaches all the time and I pretended this song completely enraptured me lol...now I'm almost 32 and still couldn't tell ya wtf it's about, but it seems like a send up of those deep and meaningful off off off Broadway plays...like the ones every character in a long running sitcom placed in New York will inevitably get dragged to buy an actor friend lol
@seth101007 You've got it. It's a pastiche sendup of avant garde musical theatre. It's a pretty narrowly targeted laugh, but for Midler and Warren it would have probably been lots of fun to write - having taken part in that actor-friend-drag-you-to-some-weird-show cycle themselves.
@seth101007 You've got it. It's a pastiche sendup of avant garde musical theatre. It's a pretty narrowly targeted laugh, but for Midler and Warren it would have probably been lots of fun to write - having taken part in that actor-friend-drag-you-to-some-weird-show cycle themselves.
From within the musical's internal logic, the song is an abstract science-fiction-inflected demonstration of the inevitable horrors of Regan-era industrialism as imagined by Regan-era liberals. The film skewers both, which is funny if you're familiar with the theatre of that era and it's politics - and is just plain hard to follow if you're not.
From within the musical's internal logic, the song is an abstract science-fiction-inflected demonstration of the inevitable horrors of Regan-era industrialism as imagined by Regan-era liberals. The film skewers both, which is funny if you're familiar with the theatre of that era and it's politics - and is just plain hard to follow if you're not.
I'm old, I was there! We all thought it was mighty clever at the time. ^_^