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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

"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

...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

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

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

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

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

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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