| re: Review of “Sunday in the Park” in New Jersey. | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 12:35 pm EDT 03/22/24 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:28 pm EDT 03/22/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Review of “Sunday in the Park” in New Jersey. - HunterHailey 10:26 am EDT 03/22/24 | |
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| There's nothing to disagree with, the premise is not mine, and it's not flawed. The fact of the matter is that the show was not conceived or written with any dancing, period. I didn't say you couldn't make the characters dance, I didn't say you couldn't add dancers who are not playing the characters in the script. But i think a lot of writers would take issue with YOUR premise, that any director can add not only bodies but interpretive bodies doing choreography that was never intended or built into the play of it or the music. One could certainly argue that with Sunday, what the dancers would be expressing and enhancing is *deliberately* meant to be left to the music and the things not said and not sung. This is one of the most nuanced musicals ever written, and adding dancers could, one could argue, not only step on that and rob it of that, but distract. Does Sondheim want people looking at dancers doing beautiful interpretive choreography that brings the painting or the emotion or the subtext to life visually, or does he want that left to the music and the singing and the lyrics and what is and is not already written for the characters to say and do and not say and not do? It's also one thing to change or expand or add choreography or dancers to a show that already uses them... it's another to do it to one that literally has none (and has no dancers or dancing in the characters or premise or setting etc -- and of course we're also talking interpretive and high concept, so in that sense there wouldn't have to be). Sunday is a musical with no dancing or choreo (except the 20 seconds of fluttering around that Dot does in her little fantasy moment about being a Follies girl.) Just because it is a musical does not mean a director can or should feel invited to just add-- not only add dancing but additional people to do the dancing. Not as a general premise of producing a musical. Are you also ok with dancers being added to plays, to "enhance the story and characters", just as a general thing directors and producers are able to do? Again, I'm not saying that can never happen, but it's a pretty tricky thing to open the door to. And again, I'd love to see this production for myself. I just won't physically be able to get to NJ during its short run. |
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