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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

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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