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Re: Lifehouse
This list seems to be consensus, plus a few other comments I've heard. Wait
until I get my script (no telling when), and I'll discuss specifics with
you.
keets
>1) It really doesn't work on any level other than the subsurface level.
>It isn't entertaining, is often confusing and features such pretentious
>"symbolic" dialog you'd think you're reading a sub-Strindberg play. It
>starts out sad and gets more depressing as it goes along.
>
>2) All that does work is on the level of a hidden Pete autobiography.
>The breakup between Ray and Sally, the only really emotionally affecting
>thing in the piece, is so obviously based on recent discussions between
>Pete and Karen.
>
>3) You could take any of the songs out and replace them with any other
>song. They are hardly tied at all to the script.
>
>4) Of Pete's three 1990's works, Psychoderelict, the Tommy Musical and
>this, I'd say Lifehouse 1999 is his most diasppointing.
>
> -Brian in Atlanta
>
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