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re: Herman's LA CAGE Score Tony

Posted by:	AlanScott 06:30 pm EDT 04/02/14
In reply to:	re: Herman's LA CAGE Score Tony - enoch10 06:09 pm EDT 04/02/14

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again: The problem with Herman's work (for me) is not lack of talent or skill on Herman's part. The problem is the material he chose to work on and the collaborators with whom he worked. As for Sunday not feeling as cohesive when it was new, and the second act being jarring, well, that's a given. It's in the nature of the piece, it's part of its ambitions, although I will say that with replacements Harry Groener and Maryann Plunkett, the work seemed completely unified. Because of the way they played it, it felt unfinished at the end of act one, and the second act truly topped the first. But, yeah, I don't really care much that La Cage won the Tony that year. Sunday not only won the Pulitzer, it also easily won the Drama Critics Circle Award on the first ballot, with 10 votes, compared to four for La Cage and three for Oedipus at Colonus (and two abstentions). But in the end even if La Cage had won the Drama Critics Award, the Tony, and the Pulitzer, and even if Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein had been given a special Nobel Prize for their work, the shows would still be what they are. Awards brevis, ars longa.

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