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Pshychoderelict, Quad on stage, Astley haters banquet



A few thoughts on some recent topics --

Scott,
Thanks for the giggles with your Astley Haters Ball.  Great bit :-D

The reason Psychoderelict is weak is because it fails to connect with the 
audience in an emotional way.  It is a work of complete cynicism and is too 
personal.  Only those who are into Pete will have any understanding of the 
themes and conlficts.  Art about the difficulties of the artistic process is 
very diffucult to pull off.  (Nearly impossible IMO.)  Sure, there are some 
clever gimmicks.  But in the end, it just does not connect.  That being 
said, some of the songs are great.  Sorry Kevin Mc, I love "Now and Then".

For Quad to work in the theater they need to emphasize the cool dramatic 
gimmick of the 4 characters within a character.  Every successful musical 
needs a gimmick to make the audience think it innovative.  One gimmick that 
people can grasp, and then make everything else bland.  Bland music, bland 
performances, bland costumes will all work great if they can pull off a 
neato torpedo 4-characters-in-one dramatic device.

Jeff