| re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:08 pm EDT 07/05/17 |
| In reply to: re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders - Ann 05:04 pm EDT 07/05/17 |
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True... but we have to also accept that many of the things critics at the time, or in retrospect, find to be flaws and problems may not be what Larson saw as problems or things he would have changed. Remember, he only died like 2.5 months before Rent started previews, which means little over a month before it went into rehearsals for the Broadway transfer... I think it's safer to assume that they opened largely the same show they would have had he not died too soon to keep making revisions.
I do believe he was smart and talented enough that in previews he would have seen some things to revise and done so for the betterment of the final product... but he did see it many many times in front of an audience just a couple months before this, and was surely making the revisions he thought he wanted based on that experience, and Greif surely got them or had access to the ones that were written out before Larson died or after.
I'm sure somewhere the details of all of this are researched and documented... I'm surprised there isn't a Rent documentary actually. |
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