Remember “The Wiz”? This Is Weirder
Author: AF Duncan
February 28th, 2006
Rapper/playwright Will Power (no relation to late-80s shit-pop slingers Will to Power) has an ambitious new off-Broadway play: an updated version of a classic Greek drama.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oedipus, the legendary Greek king who killed his father and married his mother, was “the original gangsta” and a “mack daddy” who looked like James Brown. At least that’s how the story goes in a new hip-hop musical.
“The Seven” is an updated version of Aeschylus’s tragedy “Seven Against Thebes,” the story of the two sons of Oedipus who take up arms against each other after he curses them.
The program for the play includes a glossary explaining that “mack daddy” is slang for “a pimp; or a man who is popular with the ladies,” and that Homer was the author of epic poems “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” before he became a cartoon character on “The Simpsons.”
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One Response to “Remember “The Wiz”? This Is Weirder”
February 28th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Ha ha. The first 2 CDs I ever bought were My perogative by Bobby Brown and WIll to Power. They were awesome.
And I want to come out to NY to see this play. Badassary shall ensue.