You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
I'm biased toward romantic comedies; they're probably my favorite genre.
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.
A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.
Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.