Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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 show’s producers:

In the year 3,000,458,000 B.C., the salt-eating yeasts are the only living creatures on earth, and they’re up against a food shortage, a strange new emotion called “love” and the oppression of a tyrannical king. When the king’s dreamer of a son ventures out of the known yeastiverse, the yeasts’ story – and ours – is changed forever.

Okay, that didn’t really help. Maybe this video will clear things up.

No? Then read more here. Not that it will help. Thanks to Tom. Sort of.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS:

1 posted on 10/08/2014 8:04:58 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine; Norm Lenhart; Salamander; spyone; To Hell With Poverty; locountry1dr; AAABEST; ...
This is the Modern Music Ping List. Our topic is music from the 20th and 21st century, from Ravel and Shostokovich through to the Synth Pioneers and beyond.

Topic suggestions are always welcome, and pings to music-related threads are appreciated.

FReepmail or reply to this post to be added to or removed from this list.


2 posted on 10/08/2014 8:06:25 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Squawk 8888

That deaf dumb and blind yeast
Sure plays a mean infection!


3 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.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Squawk 8888

The idea people behind this need to aim higher. I’m no fan of pretension but this is simply bottom feeding.


4 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)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Squawk 8888

I’m the Gypsy,
The Acidophilus Queen.


5 posted on 10/08/2014 8:40:45 AM PDT by drjimmy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.


6 posted on 10/08/2014 8:52:21 AM PDT by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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

7 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.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Squawk 8888
They’ve 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?
8 posted on 10/08/2014 9:16:34 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AnotherUnixGeek

Angel Snow.


9 posted on 10/08/2014 9:24:23 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: AnotherUnixGeek

Pop music is dead but rock is very much alive. You’ll never hear good new music on mainstream radio, though.


10 posted on 10/08/2014 9:29:14 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Squawk 8888

I understand the soundtrack is infectious.


11 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)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Sivana

Is this an old one from Frank Zappa or did he rise from the dead to write it?


12 posted on 10/08/2014 10:07:38 AM PDT by Caribou ( www.ktok.com Red State Radio free streaming.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Squawk 8888

sounds infectious


13 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")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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?


14 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?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

Why did they decide to reboot it so soon after 3 successful films?


15 posted on 10/08/2014 11:16:03 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

Saturday Night Fever. It was what you would expect a disco opera to be.


16 posted on 10/08/2014 1:03:39 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: henkster

The characters didn’t sing the songs in Saturday Night Fever. Electro Foxx did in Spider-Man 2 - Electro Musical


17 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?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise
Where there any disco operas?

I am blaming you in advance for my upcoming nightmares.

18 posted on 10/08/2014 3:47:22 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson