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re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production

Posted by:	simbo 06:08 am EST 11/02/15
In reply to:	re: Harvey Fierstein on his rewrite of FUNNY GIRL for the Menier production - enoch10 11:47 pm EDT 10/30/15

I don't need it to be a better love story. I want it to be a better story, fullstop. As the Lennart script stands, act two kinda wiggles around looking for a story and not really finding one (this could be one of those functions of casting Sydney Chaplin, who tended to be the leading man you'd get when all the good ones didn't want to be dominated by the leading lady - I've never thought much of him in any of the roles he initiated - a Nick that had a song and a point of view beyond "dejected puppy" for act two would give the act a point that it currently lacks for everythign that isn't the 3 minutes 52 seconds of "Music that Makes Me Dance".

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