Happy (almost) Halloween everyone!
So among my busy and hectic schedule for the next few weeks or so, I have also been kept up-to-date on some musicals, and I will be posting about the musical Dogfight, based on the 1991 film Dogfight starring Lili Taylor and River Phoenix.
The plot of this show involves a Marine named Eddie (nicknamed Birdlace) and a shy girl named Rose. It takes place in San Francisco in the '60s--actually the day before JFK was assassinated--where Birdlace and a few of his Marine friends are docked for the night before shipping off to Vietnam the next day and plan on attending a "dogfight". A "dogfight" is a party where, unbeknowst to the dates, Marines compete to bring the ugliest date. After a few failed attempts to pick up some girls, Eddie finds Rose in a coffee shop and asks her to the party, to which she initially is suspicious but then decides to go.
After arriving at the party, Eddie has second thoughts and tries to talk Rose out of going in but ends up being hoodwinked by another Marine and his date. The alcohol and dancing ends up making Rose sick and runs to the bathroom; there she runs into the winner of the "dogfight", a prostitute named Marcie brought by one of Eddie's friends Berstein, where Rose discovers the true nature of the party through Marcie. Rose slaps Eddie and runs back home, upset as to how she could be fooled so easily.
Eddie and his friends leave the party and go to an arcade, where they find a prostitute there. Feeling guilty and remorseful as to what he did to Rose, he leaves his friends and goes to her house. There Eddie tries to persuade Rose that he is truly sorry as to what he did--at first Rose is hesistant but then realizes he is being genuine.
The two goes to a fancy restaurant where Rose begins picking at Eddie's tough exterior and tries to see the nice guy he is underneath and the two begin growing closer through understanding each other. They go to the Golden gate Bridge late at night where Rose reveals that although the dogfight was unpleasant, it gave her a new understanding of herself and more self-confidence. She then nervously invites him to her house, where the two share an awkward and romantic sexual experience.
The next day, Eddie returns to his friends and get ready to ship out to Vietnam. There, Eddie sees his friends Boland and Berstein killed in front of him in action, the memories that have plagued him as he returns home to San Francisco three years later broken, confused, and lost. Eddie makes his way and finds an older and wiser Rose, who welcomes him back with compassion.
This musical actually sounds more intense than I originally thought, and I like it! The show premiered on Off-Broadway in 2012 starring Derek Klena [who played Tommy Ross in Carrie Off-Broadway] as Eddie Birdlace and Lindsay Mendez [Everyday Rapture and Godspell] as Rose Fenny. My college is going to have auditions for it in late-February and I'm excited to try and audition for it! Of course I'd like to be Rose but one can only hope!
My favorite song from the show has to be "Pretty Funny" because it's a song I can personally relate to and it's a really powerful song for understanding the character Rose Fenny. My second favorite is a tie between "Dogfight" (I love listening to Rose and Marcie's harmonies) and "Come Back" (the song is Birdlace's "aha!" song that is wicked powerful to listen to).
[Plus, I find it pretty funny that I try to put up a new entry a month and two days after my last one!]
Eddie and his friends leave the party and go to an arcade, where they find a prostitute there. Feeling guilty and remorseful as to what he did to Rose, he leaves his friends and goes to her house. There Eddie tries to persuade Rose that he is truly sorry as to what he did--at first Rose is hesistant but then realizes he is being genuine.
The two goes to a fancy restaurant where Rose begins picking at Eddie's tough exterior and tries to see the nice guy he is underneath and the two begin growing closer through understanding each other. They go to the Golden gate Bridge late at night where Rose reveals that although the dogfight was unpleasant, it gave her a new understanding of herself and more self-confidence. She then nervously invites him to her house, where the two share an awkward and romantic sexual experience.
The next day, Eddie returns to his friends and get ready to ship out to Vietnam. There, Eddie sees his friends Boland and Berstein killed in front of him in action, the memories that have plagued him as he returns home to San Francisco three years later broken, confused, and lost. Eddie makes his way and finds an older and wiser Rose, who welcomes him back with compassion.
This musical actually sounds more intense than I originally thought, and I like it! The show premiered on Off-Broadway in 2012 starring Derek Klena [who played Tommy Ross in Carrie Off-Broadway] as Eddie Birdlace and Lindsay Mendez [Everyday Rapture and Godspell] as Rose Fenny. My college is going to have auditions for it in late-February and I'm excited to try and audition for it! Of course I'd like to be Rose but one can only hope!
My favorite song from the show has to be "Pretty Funny" because it's a song I can personally relate to and it's a really powerful song for understanding the character Rose Fenny. My second favorite is a tie between "Dogfight" (I love listening to Rose and Marcie's harmonies) and "Come Back" (the song is Birdlace's "aha!" song that is wicked powerful to listen to).
[Plus, I find it pretty funny that I try to put up a new entry a month and two days after my last one!]
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