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re: It sounds like there should be a number called "Don't Speak!"

Posted by:	AlanScott 12:26 am EDT 03/19/14
In reply to:	re: It sounds like there should be a number called "Don't Speak!" - Delvino 11:40 pm EDT 03/18/14

Yeah, you totally want to avoid that kind of thing. You might put the line "Don't Speak" into a song, but you'd have to let it surprise the audience. Since you brought up Young Frankenstein, one big mistake made there that's not repeated here is the use of enormous sets. The YF sets were very impressive, but that's the kind of thing that you probably want to avoid when putting a movie onstage. Movies can give us closeups, and you need to approximate that. Not that the sets here are small (although the Village apt. set is nicely undersized), but they're not massive, and the stage feels on the small side. The same mistake was made long ago by Santo Loquasto — although he may have simply been doing what he was asked for — in Singin' in the Rain. Massive sets, very impressive, and exactly not what that show needed. Although Bullets is in a big theatre, they'd done their best to make it feel intimate.

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