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I don't even need "stunning" choreography… just good and fitting for the scene

Posted by:	Chazwaza 10:30 pm EST 12/06/13
In reply to:	I thought "No Way to Stop It" was quite well directed. - GrumpyMorningBoy 04:16 am EST 12/06/13

My problem with the work of Ashford isn't so much that it isn't stunning enough… that would be nice, but that's not the issue. The issue is that it's wrong for the scene and for the characters and the piece. It often has people doing completely inorganic steps (like what they do at the party in SOM) or choreography that is disconnected to the material, or way overly connected in a literal sense, or worst of all that are not helping the story and are upstaging the scene. He thinks like a dancer not like an audience member or even an actor, and it is constantly evident. How To Succeed is a prime example of this stuff to me. He suffocated it with his choreography… and even if the style of the production was "right", the timing and pace of the direction, and his direction of Radcliffe, was completely off. And his work in Evita made me think he didn't understand the show… perhaps that is Grandage's fault. The point is… how about we start with just consistently good choreography that serves the needs of the show and the scene and the characters?

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