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The lads, along with special guest Matt Barbot (@BarbotRobot), have rockets in their pockets as they rumble with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s 2021 adaptation of the musical theater classic: West Side Story. They discuss the complicated legacy of the original musical, the pitfalls of adaptation, and the importance of producing new work in an industry obsessed with refurbishing the old.

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John Her

Listening to this made me think of Madame Butterfly for some reason (maybe the yellowface I guess?). Digging into that Wikipedia rabbit hole and the gulf between the musical and the short story felt like watching The Last Duel again. Just a few key changes and the musical feels like a disgusting whitewashing and romanticization of what's really a story of brutal misogyny, racism, imperialism, and exploitation of a child.

John Her

The best part is that the short story Madame Butterfly is itself the romanticization of a supposedly semi-autobiographical novel by a French guy who actually did exploit a "temporary wife" for a month.