>>91584379i can listen to meredith monk trill and project voice in a made up singsong language and still get something out of the musical because it was designed to be that way, to convey messages without the use of intelligible language.
by contrast, the songs in the so-called musical border on non-sequitur.
everyone knows carmen is going to be in french. you dont sit down for a showing of wicked and expect elphaba to start gesticulating about SOMETHING in urdu after having spoken in english prior.
actually its worse, because you can at least kind of get the meaning from context of the performers and setpieces.
the way it stands in the production, because of the direction making it so that they dance like its a normal performance of a song during a live, its more like you accidentally changed language tracks during an audiobook or went to piss during a movie.
