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chocolatepotWhoa, I love this show so much. I actually want to go see the musical they're putting on, from just the few bits they've shown. The casting seems just right, Davenport's got that scruffy thing going on that was so hot in Dead Man's Chest, it's genuinely interesting. There's just one problem.
I want Ivy to get the part. I get the impression that Karen is supposed to be the underdog, but from my perspective, that's Ivy. Karen is thin and pop; Ivy has some meat on her bones (she looks so right for the part that it feels like one of those once-in-a-lifetime chances, too) and is Broadway, which may be the subject of the show, but it's damned unpopular as a musical style in real life. Karen's parents are unsupportive-yet-supportive in the exact same way my dad is; Ivy's parents are absent and her mother cares more about her brother's night school than her callback. Karen has a hot, wonderful boyfriend; Ivy has ... nobody? Karen is a newcomer; Ivy has been working her way up for years - this point sounds like it's for Karen's side, but honestly, as someone who's done a good number of (completely amateur) productions, I have zero sympathy for the person trying to shoot straight for the top. What's more painful, getting lots of rejections when you lack the experience, or doing something for a long time and getting rejected despite your experience? Obviously the first leads to the frustrating vicious cycle of never getting the experience due to being rejected, but the latter just feels worse.
It feels to me so much like those school elections where - at the risk of sounding like the HP fans who translate everything painfully into movie clichés - the popular kid wins and the unpopular one who wanted to actually try student government loses. It's completely possible that they'll surprise me, like Glee did when New Directions lost at Sectionals (Regionals?) the first time, but I just know that every time I watch an episode I'm going to be hypersensitive to every slight or obstacle that comes Ivy's way and be really annoyed at McPhee's poppy runs that do not belong in a musical (unless it's that sort of musical, which this one does not seem to be).
I want Ivy to get the part. I get the impression that Karen is supposed to be the underdog, but from my perspective, that's Ivy. Karen is thin and pop; Ivy has some meat on her bones (she looks so right for the part that it feels like one of those once-in-a-lifetime chances, too) and is Broadway, which may be the subject of the show, but it's damned unpopular as a musical style in real life. Karen's parents are unsupportive-yet-supportive in the exact same way my dad is; Ivy's parents are absent and her mother cares more about her brother's night school than her callback. Karen has a hot, wonderful boyfriend; Ivy has ... nobody? Karen is a newcomer; Ivy has been working her way up for years - this point sounds like it's for Karen's side, but honestly, as someone who's done a good number of (completely amateur) productions, I have zero sympathy for the person trying to shoot straight for the top. What's more painful, getting lots of rejections when you lack the experience, or doing something for a long time and getting rejected despite your experience? Obviously the first leads to the frustrating vicious cycle of never getting the experience due to being rejected, but the latter just feels worse.
It feels to me so much like those school elections where - at the risk of sounding like the HP fans who translate everything painfully into movie clichés - the popular kid wins and the unpopular one who wanted to actually try student government loses. It's completely possible that they'll surprise me, like Glee did when New Directions lost at Sectionals (Regionals?) the first time, but I just know that every time I watch an episode I'm going to be hypersensitive to every slight or obstacle that comes Ivy's way and be really annoyed at McPhee's poppy runs that do not belong in a musical (unless it's that sort of musical, which this one does not seem to be).
