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re: ZORBA: is the show the problem?

Posted by:	B_Rabbit 05:41 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to:	re: ZORBA! Tonight - AlanScott 11:33 pm EDT 05/06/15

I confess to be just what your friend feared, Alan, someone who'd never seen Zorba before and now believes it to be a poorly-written show. Those un-merry villagers do such hateful things. "The First Time," as a statement of one's life-view, is, to me, unimaginative and off-putting - and I usually love Fred Ebb lyrics. The Leader and her Greek chorus, loudly and somewhat desperately proclaiming that what we are seeing is terribly profound: I found the show never lived up to what she claimed it to be. Hortense's humor, also built on desperation, failed to tickle me. Now, I suppose older-and-wiser fans will try to convince me that I can't judge the piece without seeing Prince's staging, Field's choreography, or more charismatic leads. But everything I didn't like about it was in the writing. Did John Weidman cut the meat and leave the fat?
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