| The recreations question | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:55 pm EDT 07/04/17 | |
| In reply to: I know I have said this before .... - jdm 11:11 am EDT 07/04/17 | |
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| I think there is some confusion because of what Prince said in an interview. Or at least I think he said that they would not be recreating the original stagings. But I never took what he said — which I wish I could find, and maybe I could if I searched online — to mean that if "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" were included, it would not have a woman singing on a balcony. And as the video posted by Wayman shows, it is included, or at least it was included in Japan, where it was sung by a woman on a balcony in a dress that at least evokes the dress worn in the original. I think that what Prince meant, which the video seems to confirm, is that he was not going to try to slavishly recreate the exact original stagings, some of which are lost to time anyway (except for notes in stage managers' scripts, when those can be found). In addition, he obviously was going to give Stroman some degree of a free hand. I seem to remember seeing a video online with excerpts from a workshop or perhaps it was a rehearsal for Japan with a section of "You've Got Possibilities" not in the video posted by Wayman, and that staging did not include a moment I remember so well from seeing Superman when I was eight years old. I remember this moment because the moment got a big laugh. So while most of what we see in the video may bring to mind the originals, some of them do so to a greater degree than others. Some diverge pretty far, others stay pretty close. Similarly with the costumes. And unlike Jerome Robbins' Broadway, we are not seeing the original sets recreated, although again sometimes what we see evokes the original sets, but sometimes only in the most general way. |
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