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re: Still, ask Marsha Norman.

Posted by:	ryhog 09:49 am EST 01/16/15
In reply to:	re: Still, ask Marsha Norman. - Ann 08:49 am EST 01/16/15

I think you can be lazy just as easily with an original story as with an adapted one. Laziness finds its owner. There is a school of thought that there are no original stories, just more obscure ones. But I think the truth is, you can come up with a story for a musical on a lazy afternoon and if you want to persist in your laziness, you can build a whole show on the "work" you did. And if we give too much credit for coming up with a supposedly original story, we (a) discredit much of the musical theatre canon and (b) suppress an evaluation of the quality of the original story, viz. If/Then or The Last Ship, with both of which I think it is fair to say most people had book issues.

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