Carousel is one of my favourite musicals. Definitely my favourite Rodgers & Hammerstein one. "Soliloquy" was one of the hardest songs my singing teacher (yeah yeah) taught me, growing up. But it's a VERY working class, very non-woke musical, so of course the woke had to ruin it, in this era... - Kotaku In Action 2

Carousel is one of my favourite musicals. Definitely my favourite Rodgers & Hammerstein one. "Soliloquy" was one of the hardest songs my singing teacher (yeah yeah) taught me, growing up. But it's a VERY working class, very non-woke musical, so of course the woke had to ruin it, in this era... (archive.is)

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– bamboozler1 [S] 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

The central question here is whether “redemption” is possible, as a straight, huwhite, Christian (in this case, American), working class male…

It seems that in current era, leftists would argue that it is not, even in fiction, and even in death, as with the main character of this musical…

That’s a scary thought, when you consider this shit is effectively semi-official “state ideology” now…

Backed up also by all the “right-thinking” reviews of, and comments on, recent productions of this musical, including of course on fucking Reddit… 🤦🏻‍♂️

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