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Posted by: Glitter 12:34 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: Spoiler request - ukpaul 07:46 am EDT 08/16/14

Formerly, Claire handed the Mayor a cheque. After the villagers celebrated, Claire re-enters with gray hair and widow's dress, leads a funeral procession with her entourage while the Mayor and the villagers's face flush with shame.

Now, there's no cheque. Claire has the eunuchs open the suitcases they've carried all night, and they're filled with money. They spread them across the front of the stage, the villagers dive in obscenely. stuffing their pockets and clothes with money. Claire re-enters with gray hair and widow's dress, leads a funeral procession with her entourage while the villagers exit the other way. The audience is left staring at the empty, decrepit, windy village, with money scattered about. Slow fade.


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Posted by: enoch10 11:20 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: Spoiler - Glitter 12:34 pm EDT 08/16/14

i agree with (i think) ukpaul that this is a much better ending. i've never adapted a musical let alone one from a source as tricky as this. i could see where certain decisions would have to be made but some of them are coming at the expense of the ambiguity that serves the material well.

having a reaction like the one previously described as the mayor having at the end seemed outright wrong. for one thing that look should have come with the schoolteacher not the mayor since he was the only character to articulate - at least out loud - those ideas. but if he had it would have diminished the arc of the character. glad to hear it's been dropped.

this could be the production to make me change my mind about doyle. his PASSION has me about halfway there anyway.


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Posted by: ukpaul 01:52 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: Spoiler - Glitter 12:34 pm EDT 08/16/14

Thanks, the new version sounds much better.


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