Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements Appendix 6, Part 2: Moby Dick: A Musical Reckoning (Again)
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We may have bitten off more blubber than we can chew here, but the crew of Whale Statements forges on with our review, and extensive discussion, of Dave Malloy’s Moby Dick: A Musical Reckoning (2019). That crew also continues to include Danny (@BerserkerDanDan) and Clay (@ClayDanteT), our guests, who are as baffled as we are by the musical being perpetrated here.
Having chewed through the introduction, the narrator, and most of the crew in the first section, we’re now facing down what the musical itself calls “a sort of a cooking show vaudeville” as well as an entire stand-up act by Fedallah, one of the novel’s strangest characters and one of the musical’s most uncomfortable points of ambiguity between the character, the actor, and Dave Malloy. Hey, at least this part has some actual whaling, and also audience participation! And sperm. Audience participation and sperm, together at last.
You can find more of our guests Clay & Danny and their own work on Instagram @wastelandradioproductions!
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