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Posted by:	Chazwaza 06:24 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to:	re: I agree - allineedisthegirl 04:46 pm EDT 03/13/14

Oh man... as someone who sat in the mid to front orchestra both times I saw the original, let me tell you, it really helped. I assume, I've never seen it from the back of a house that big. I think what I just said in reply to Alan about Sweeney applies in many ways to Ragtime too. It is a big show, written with big music and big emotion and relatively broad character who start out distanced, purposefully, from the audience. And the show gets more intimate, but besides that it's a show about people (it's also a show about history and about Ragtime as a time in and metaphor for that period in America), it is not really an intimate show. And I think the show works best when the physical production embraces and compliments the large scale of the work and story, while also allowing it to become intimate when the writing goes there. And from where I saw in that theater, it did both in the original production. But I can certainly understand having a different experience from much further away. However I will say those songs are built for the back of the house, so I don't know that being half-again as close to the singer would move you that much more.

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