It's sort of/not really a musical (well, there is one musical number in it like a traditional musical and of course there is a lot of MUSIC in it). It's more about the UK under Thatcher. And the rise of the National Front there. And what it's like to live in an immigrant family there where the expectations for you are radically different from what you want. The music connected with him because of this, and that part was interesting.

In case you didn't know about that time in UK history - the UK in the early 90's went through a really deep recession (deeper than ours). There were riots (the poll tax riots) where people protested the Tory government and a lot of unrest and anger at the immigrant community. In many ways that time presaged Brexit.

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[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. ~Pat Robertson

Edited: 08/26/2019 at 11:51 AM by moody