How did they "fix" Annie Get Your Gun? By starting with the truly over-obvious choice of taking the "Show Business" number and putting it at the top of the show, now halfway through Act I where the writers put it? (The writers were smart enough to AVOID the obvious choice. They were right.) And going "cliche slow" to start with, building the tempo as the number goes? Cheapened the show, IMO. (They did the same kind of thing with that revival of Kiss Me, Kate in the same season.)
Simply taking out "I'm An Indian Too" and other judicious cuts might have been fine. The fact that they felt like they really had to re-invent the whole show certainly wasn't a "fix" by any means. |
