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Um, you missed my whole point.

Posted by:	Delvino 10:28 am EST 01/17/15
In reply to:	re: Thank you; can't be stated enough. - enoch10 11:01 pm EST 01/16/15

"um, no. there is such a thing as lazy writing and even smart people and good writers can do it." "Um" yes, and you're missing my whole point. One can toil mightily and end up with a stinker of a show. Stinkers are not necessarily the result of sloth; they are sometimes (one might say often) the result of a series -- a chain reaction -- of bad creative decisions, all made with painstaking care, over time, with much thought and effort involved. A "good" show is magic because elements coalesce. A bad one can happen when those elements -- carefully assembled -- simply don't line up. If there was a scientific correlation between effort and outcome, we'd put musicals in development for a year, through ten workshops, and "know" we had a winner. How many shows toil and revise only to still end up with a hot mess? Too many. No, good and bad outcomes are not easily determined by a measure of effort.

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