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re: Does anybody see what I see?

Posted by:	Chazwaza 08:56 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to:	re: Does anybody see what I see? - BrianJ 11:12 pm EDT 08/13/14

Well, two things: 1) How often have you seen amateur productions of Caroline or Change? Or even professional? I'd say of the very small number of people who have seen it, they've either seen it just in NYC or just in an amateur production. It hasn't been around for 60 years or become a classic or been a movie or been done in school, community, regional, etc productions for as long as it's existed. So it's hard to imagine comparing it in those ways, or imagining that you can really know that it doesn't work and those do based on what you said proved G&D or MFL for example DO work. I argue this because I think it does work. It worked when I saw it, and then a decade later when I picked up the CD finally, it worked all over again. And then I read the script to make sure (I believe the entire how is on the CD though). 2) I also argue this because it is not in anyway comparable to shows like MFL or G&D, or any of the shows that were being written in the 40s, 50s, or 60s. It's hardly comparable to any show written any time anyway. But I mean, I think Assassins works brilliantly, that didn't go out of town to New Haven either. But I'd also never think to compare it as a musical to MFL or G&D. Caroline Or Change to me is a piece of dramatic and poetic art that entertains. It's like an modern American opera-poem. The others you put it up against are entertainments that were so good they are art. Whether my point is true or well made, I urge you to buy or rent to CoC CD and listen to it a few more times.

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