REPO! The Genetic Opera

REPO! The Genetic Opera
I heard about this show because I was listening to a small-ish web radio station where the DJ's play crazy stuff from time to time. The song that got me started was Zydrate Anatomy. Youtube Link1 Link 2 (enjoy)

Now on first glance it may appear that this is a production much like Hedwig (and The Angry Inch). But I was wrong. REPO! is not nearly that good. Sure Repo has a one or two good songs in it, but the acting, direction, set-work, and singing are just not up to snuff. The acting and directing in particular appear to be done with a "Stage" in mind rather than making the jump to "Screen".

Hedwig is a movie that I have actually watched all the way through, and I enjoyed it very much. The subject matter transcends the mundane topic of just another transvestite and becomes something more fundamentally human, and of course the music ROCKS. ( in the right places ) In example the song "The Origin of Love" expertly washes from soft to hard and back again with a floating mood and melody that just really work. I'm not saying that the movie for Hedwig is perfect in every way. It's that Hedwig has an elegance in it somewhere that draws in the flaws and makes a greater work from them.

Repo! is a movie that I have not watched, but I did spend an inordinate amount of time watching and re-watching the clips that are available on Youtube. But I feel I've gotten enough of a feel for how the people are moving and I've heard at least a few of the songs. They did a fine job but it cannot be described as great. I may at some point rent/watch the movie, but I don't feel a pressing need to do this anytime soon.

But I still think the song Zydrate Anatomy is fun!

Unrelated idea for a show

So this doesn't relate to the next post I'm about to write, or at least not directly. But imagine if you will a young girl. Kept in her room because since her mother died her father has been overprotective and locked her in there to keep her safe. It's a normal room with normal furniture, except for the window. The window is one of those really nice big bay windows, sticking out over the house, and this is how she gets to see the world. Trick is that the window is mecha-magical and there is a control panel at the ledge. She can not only look out on her street, but any street, Anywhere. Adjust a nob or move the stick and the window flies along to where-ever, now she's looking over a stream in the middle of Colorado, next she's looking at a street corner in Tokyo, etc.
This isn't just an image of that street or etc. The outside of the window physically moves to that location. So if you were a backpacker out near that Colorado stream you'd see a strange bay window floating above the stream with apparently nothing to hold it up. She can open her window and smell the breeze an yell down to the people, if she wants to. But turn around and she's still in her room at home.

I'm pretty sure that if someone could reach up to the window they could climb through and they would be in her room. Her father would probably put bars on the window to prevent that in some way (thinking of lions and bears possibly jumping through) but I can't decide if the bars would be on the outside of the window or inside her room.