| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | BrianJ 12:57 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
| In reply to: | Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - Michael_Portantiere 09:52 am EDT 10/30/15 |
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| Yes, I would think all but the most unusually, exceptionally dense audience members understood that at the time.... I'm trying to picture Fierstein standing outside the Winter Garden after a performance in 1964 explaining these insights to departing theatregoers, presumably baffled by the unexplained psychological complexity of what they'd just seen and grateful for the clarifications. And yes, regarding his Ziegfeld Follies comment, I don't think I've ever heard anyone complain that the show was/is an overblown spectacle which focuses so much on gaudy pageantry that the leading character gets lost in the shuffle, and that it will take a lower budget, stripped-down production to properly put the focus on that character in a way that the original production missed. But I guess you have to say more in an interview then, "Eh, I enjoy working, I enjoy the paycheck, a paid visit to London for a bit will be fun, so I took the job." | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | young-walsingham 02:04 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - BrianJ 12:57 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| "Eh, I enjoy working, I enjoy the paycheck, a paid visit to London for a bit will be fun, so I took the job." So you believe Mr Fierstein has no artistic integrity? | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | sf 02:52 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - young-walsingham 02:04 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| "So you believe Mr Fierstein has no artistic integrity?" Unfair question - at least, for anyone who has seen/read Mr. Fierstein's adaptation of "La Cage Aux Folles" *and* the film it's based on. | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | Chromolume 06:28 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - sf 02:52 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| ...and the ridiculously stripped-down orchestrations for the Menier-spawned recent Broadway revival?? Maybe this Funny Girl will just be piano and trumpet. (There's no escaping "Cornet Man" after all. Unless that gets cut too.) | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | sf 07:03 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - Chromolume 06:28 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| At the Menier, I've no problem with the tiny orchestra. When their productions transfer to the West End or Broadway and prices go up, I'm not thrilled when the band stays the same size as it was on Southwark Street. Having said that, I'm curious enough about Smith that I'm sure I'll see this - at the Savoy, because I was busy during the two hours it took the run at the Menier to sell out. | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | Chromolume 12:01 pm EDT 10/31/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - sf 07:03 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| When their productions transfer to the West End or Broadway and prices go up, I'm not thrilled when the band stays the same size as it was on Southwark Street And of course that's the problem. If these shows are going to transfer intact, they shouldn't be going to Broadway. If they're going to go to Broadway, they need to be scaled up appropriately. | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | lowwriter 07:24 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - sf 07:03 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| Funny Girl doesn't not need to turned into a chamber musical. I hope when they revive it in NYC, hopefully at Lincoln Center, they give it the big production it deserves. | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | PlayWiz 03:05 am EDT 10/31/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - lowwriter 07:24 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| I agree; I don't want to see a show that has scenes recreating the extravagant "Ziegfeld Follies" done on the scale of the "Fantasticks". | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | tandelor 08:29 am EDT 10/31/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - PlayWiz 03:05 am EDT 10/31/15 |
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| I remember the same criticism of the movie when it opened, that it made the Ziegfeld stages way too large and too filled with an unrealistically large cast and production. | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | Michael_Portantiere 02:35 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - young-walsingham 02:04 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| "'Eh, I enjoy working, I enjoy the paycheck, a paid visit to London for a bit will be fun, so I took the job.' So you believe Mr Fierstein has no artistic integrity?" I really don't see how that pretend quote leads to your interpretation. That's quite a leap. | |
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| re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production | |
| Posted by: | Michael_Portantiere 01:05 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - BrianJ 12:57 pm EDT 10/30/15 |
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| "But I guess you have to say more in an interview then, 'Eh, I enjoy working, I enjoy the paycheck, a paid visit to London for a bit will be fun, so I took the job.'" And if you work for the Menier Chocolate Factory, you HAVE to say that a stripped-down, bare-bones production with minimal production values and a miniscule orchestra is going to do a far better job of "focusing on the story" of a beloved musical than those awful, overblown Broadway production of yore, with all those pesky sets, costumes, and musicians. David Babani, the artistic director of the Menier, is usually the one to spout these annoying statements, but I guess he let Fierstein do so this time :-) | |
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