Prouvaire

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

There is in fact another show called Parade, a revue of Jerry Herman songs, which I think would be as light-hearted as the title suggests. :-)

I've seen a couple of productions of the JRB Parade (including this revival), with a third coming up next year, and, yeah, it's fairly heavy going. And while the anti-Semitic themes do resonate particularly strongly at the moment, I tend to view the show as being against prejudice of any kind. It's like the old adage says - it's through specificity that you attain universality.

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

I read Glen Berger's book a few years ago and can't see how this screenplay wouldn't be based on Berger's memoir, especially since (based on the Blacklist summary) the "playwright" is the central character of the screenplay. Berger's book certainly makes for fascinating reading.

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

Hard to say. It may be that they're carrying often heavy instruments and are predictable in their movements, leaving the show at a set time each night.

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

A lot of stage and movie/TV musicals where the characters are actually singers have prominent diegetic elements - so Beautiful the Carol King musical, Jersey Boys, Elvis a Musical Revolution, The Commitments, Fame etc.

In the recent Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "Subspace Rhapsody" all the characters were aware that they were breaking into song, much like they were in "Once More With Feeling". Which isn't surprising as OMWF was a very clear influence on the Star Trek musical.

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

This means that Andy Karl will have played Phil Connors in every major production of this show. (Some US regional and foreign language non-replica productions featured a different Phil Connors.)

Australia relaxed its rules around the use of international talent in starring roles a few years ago, which is why the production is able to bring over Andy Karl (and why Owen Teale is currently appearing as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol in Melbourne). I would guess that MEAA (Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance), the Australian version of Actors Equity, probably isn't too happy about this as it makes it harder to cast locals in key roles. Though having seen Karl in Groundhog Day in London, I have to say Melbourne is in for a treat. Karl (and with due respect to the other performers) absolutely carries the show. He's fantastic.

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

While there have been plenty of movie to stage musical to movie musical adaptations (The upcoming The Color Purple and Mean Girls are two), this would be the first (I think?) movie musical to stage musical to movie musical adaptation.

The current stage musical maintains a lot of the songs used in the original movie (like "Tango Roxanne" and the only original song, "Come What May"), but also adds (snippets of) many more. Luhrmann's statement that "So I can see in 20 years you recalibrating it again with new music." seems to speak to something else again - the idea of doing yet another take on Moulin Rouge (whether on stage or on film) with music drawn from the bigger pool available in another generation or so. Sort of like Disney's idea of revising Fantasia every so often.

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

What I mostly remember about the movie is the sense of whiplash I got from the frantic editing!

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

It so happens that I had a discussion with someone about this very issue on the kbin codeberg some months ago, starting with this comment here:

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/455#issuecomment-977168

But while I've also gone back and forth on the question, I've basically settled on the view that public downvoting encourages _responsible _downvoting, and the risks associated with downvotes being public are exaggerated given how much else of one's activity is public anyway.

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

I suppose it gets used in both the colloquial and technical sense of the word. You also get references to a show being a "critical hit" - critics liked it even if it lost money. :-)

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

https://playbill.com/article/how-the-gilded-age-got-so-many-broadway-stars-to-join-its-cast

Prouvaire, 6 months ago

Watching the show as a theatre lover is like being a kid in a candy store.

The Fediverse ecosystem is still relatively new, so I suspect it'll take a while for the more stable sites to emerge. And the Fediverse's federated nature means it's inherently more chaotic than something run by a company with deep pockets behind it. The upside is that if one site goes down you can always go to another one and continue to access the vast majority of the content that's out there.

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

Have been an admirer of Moffatt's work since Press Gang, so will definitely check this out.

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

Subsequent updates will be carried out promptly, so if you encounter any new issues with the site, please mention me.

I wonder if it might be an idea to post a prominent message or banner or similar when you're updating the site, especially for updates that may take longer than a few minutes and/or have the potential to cause longer site outages should something go wrong. That way people would know that any issues they may encounter are due to a planned outage rather than something going on.

I also wonder if it might be an idea to have a means of communicating with users that is not the kbin.social account, but rather something like a Mastodon account. That way if there's a serious problem with kbin.social people can get updates from this alternative Fediverse identity.

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

This trailer is definitely a bit more fetch than the previous one.

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

Beautiful work - thank you.

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

I'm a younger user of lemmy in the sense that I've only been a Fediverse user for less than a year. 😇

Starcraft (1 and 2). I suck. Suck in the "had trouble finishing the campaign on Normal, couldn't get out of Bronze league" sense of suck.

But I love it. It's my favourite video game, though these days I only watch it rather than play it, for reasons of see above.

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

This includes improving the functioning of federation, with a particular focus on collaborative remote content moderation

Is this related to

• https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/12
• https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/221
• https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/521
• https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/570

?

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

This is one of the biggest issues and barriers to discoverability with the Fediverse in my opinion.

As I understand it, unless an instance has already subscribed to a community (magazine in kbin parlance), then in order to make that community (magazine) appear in your own instance, you need to:

• First search for the community (including the community's home instance) name in the magazine search function.
• The search will come up blank, but the act of searching for it will trigger a backend request for your instance to start federating content from that community. However there's no message to tell you that it's doing that. It just looks like that community doesn't exist.
• Further, it may take up to several days (in my experience) for federation to start, ie, you have to repeat the search for the community and only then can you subscribe to (follow) that community
• And when it does start, it only starts grabbing new content. So first it looks like the community doesn't exist, then it takes a long time for content to appear, and then it looks like the community is sparsely populated unless you go back to the community's home instance, rather than staying in your own instance, to catch up on old content.
• Further pinned posts aren't federated (at least between lemmy and kbin I believe), so you can't even rely on a "here's what you need to know" introductory post to orient new members.

Contrast this to reddit, where (because it's a centralised system) searching for a subreddit produces immediate results, you can join a subreddit immediately, and you can immediately see all current and past content for that subreddit. Much more intuitive and useful to users.

Unfortunately the activitypub protocol that underlies lemmy and kbin doesn't appear to have been designed for reddit-like communities in mind. Ie communities that tend to feature long-form content, posted relatively sporadically, and where having access to the community's archive is very useful to members. It works somewhat better for twitter-like communities where it's easier to jump in "mid-stream" and - because posts tend to be only a few words long - you're more likely to start seeing new content after only a short delay.

I wish that this is something that's addressed at the Fediverse level.

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

That Bob Justman memo reminded me how much fun they had making TOS (as well as working long and hard of course). Perhaps my favourite is the memo chain Justman started about Vulcan proper names.

Re fixing mistakes: I guess I don't have a problem with it as long as the mistakes are trivial, are clearly errors, and the original version remains available. What constitutes a "trivial error" of course can be up for debate. Correcting a background audio cue - sure, why not? Changing early TOS references of "Vulcanians" to "Vulcans" - definitely not.

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

It's a way of enabling a "single page" user interface:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/617982/kbin-RTR-10-Remove-unused-code-revert-user-mode-comments-score#entry-comment-3503077

Personally I don't use it as it seems to conflict with some extensions I use.

You can currently enable it via your Setting panel:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/617982/kbin-RTR-10-Remove-unused-code-revert-user-mode-comments-score#entry-comment-3504011

but as Ernest mentioned, the setting to enable/disable Turbo mode will move to the sidebar.

By the way, I assume:

I moved the turbo mode to the sidebar, making it accessible even when logged in

should read "make it accessible even when not logged in"

Prouvaire, 7 months ago

Thanks DD - will raise a Codeberg issue in the next day or so (just in the middle of work right now).