Monday, December 18, 2023

Darlings, Here Is What We Watched, When Skipping Over "Svengoolie's" Broadcast Of 1963's "The Raven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


                                       "Dicks: The Musical" is definitely a musical non-classic.  It is not even bad enough to make worst lists like "Can't Stop The Music," or The Bee Gees' 1978 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."  And, girls, don't get too excited, because anyone looking for dicks, will not find them here.  Not a single penis to be shown.



                                            However, it is campy and fun.  Bowen Yang as God is hilarious, though I felt a bit guilty--should I be watching this?  But even God has a sense of humor!  I mean, he has let me live long enough to write this blog, hasn't he?


                                             Back to the movie.  Darlings, this is a gay male version of "The Parent Trap," and while the boys who are twins--Joshua Sharp as Craig and Aaron Jackson as Trevor---are not even boys but young men; worse than that, though, they are NOT Hayley Mills!  How dare Hayley is disrespected like this?  Wasn't that Lohan girl's version bad enough?


                                              Broadway veterans Nathan Lane and Megan Mullaly liven things up; especially the latter, playing a disabled 90+ woman in a wheelchair, who finds a different voice than Karen's and belts out mediocre songs that call one's attention to them, because of her Broadway voice.  Though something of a scene stealer himself, Nathan Lane is upstaged by two small special effects creatures called The Sewer Boys, who are kind of cute.  Their story is tragic but has a happy ending.


                                                   Campy, but entertaining, "Dicks: The Musical" offers enjoyment rather than art.  It got us through the evening, and again Megan Mullaly steals the show.


                                                     Don't be fooled by crude titles, darlings! They may turn out better than at first expected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



2 comments:

  1. God MUST have a sense of humor I would think.
    I don’t mind some irreverent humor!!

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  2. Victoria,
    Irreverent is fine; some of this I found vulgar.
    Nevertheless, it was entertaining and the performers were
    real pros.

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