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They’ve Run Out of Ideas for Rock Operas. There’s Now One About Yeast. You Heard Me.
A Journal of Musical Things ^
| October 8, 2014
| Alan Cross
Posted on 10/08/2014 8:04:58 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
Musical theatre can be a weird place. Musical theatre in San Francisco can be extra-weird. As proof, I present Yeast Town, a new rock musical based on yeast. Yes, the little things that make bread rise and cause infections, you know, down there.
So what could such a production be all about? Let me quote from the shows producers:
In the year 3,000,458,000 B.C., the salt-eating yeasts are the only living creatures on earth, and theyre up against a food shortage, a strange new emotion called love and the oppression of a tyrannical king. When the kings dreamer of a son ventures out of the known yeastiverse, the yeasts story and ours is changed forever.
Okay, that didnt really help. Maybe this video will clear things up.
No? Then read more here. Not that it will help. Thanks to Tom. Sort of.
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posted on
10/08/2014 8:06:25 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Squawk 8888
That deaf dumb and blind yeast
Sure plays a mean infection!
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posted on
10/08/2014 8:08:27 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Squawk 8888
The idea people behind this need to aim higher. I’m no fan of pretension but this is simply bottom feeding.
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posted on
10/08/2014 8:09:15 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
To: Squawk 8888
I’m the Gypsy,
The Acidophilus Queen.
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posted on
10/08/2014 8:40:45 AM PDT
by
drjimmy
To: Squawk 8888
The dearth of ideas in the so-called “creative community” has rendered it a veritable desert. One of marxism’s goals is to rob art of its relevance, its vitality, and its ability to elevate. In the Post-Modernists, it has achieved that goal in spades.
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posted on
10/08/2014 8:52:21 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Squawk 8888
Every time I look at you I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand.
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned.
-PJ
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posted on
10/08/2014 9:12:05 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Squawk 8888
Theyve Run Out of Ideas for Rock Operas.
No loss - rock operas are like ruining a good sports car to create a terrible stretch limo.
They've run out of ideas for rock in general - 50s through the 90s were the decades of great rock, but who are the great young rock groups of today?
To: AnotherUnixGeek
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posted on
10/08/2014 9:24:23 AM PDT
by
Hostage
(ARTICLE V)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Pop music is dead but rock is very much alive. You’ll never hear good new music on mainstream radio, though.
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posted on
10/08/2014 9:29:14 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Squawk 8888
I understand the soundtrack is infectious.
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:03:41 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Dr. Sivana
Is this an old one from Frank Zappa or did he rise from the dead to write it?
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:07:38 AM PDT
by
Caribou
( www.ktok.com Red State Radio free streaming.)
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:18:34 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
To: Squawk 8888; GeronL
That’s nothing, the second Spider-Man movie of the reboot franchise was a damned dubstep opera.
Brrrrssttdubdubdubdubwhooaaaaaazzzzzapppppoooooohhhhhhhaaaagggg
Where there any disco operas?
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posted on
10/08/2014 11:11:16 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
To: a fool in paradise
Why did they decide to reboot it so soon after 3 successful films?
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posted on
10/08/2014 11:16:03 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: a fool in paradise
Saturday Night Fever. It was what you would expect a disco opera to be.
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posted on
10/08/2014 1:03:39 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: henkster
The characters didn’t sing the songs in Saturday Night Fever. Electro Foxx did in Spider-Man 2 - Electro Musical
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posted on
10/08/2014 1:44:07 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
To: a fool in paradise
Where there any disco operas?I am blaming you in advance for my upcoming nightmares.
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posted on
10/08/2014 3:47:22 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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