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| re: The Kushner approved cuts to "Perestroika" -- are they used? | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 11:03 am EDT 10/31/17 | |
| In reply to: The Kushner approved cuts to "Perestroika" -- are they used? - Delvino 10:09 am EDT 10/31/17 | |
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| I prefer "Perestroika", which is where all of the delicious drama takes place - but I didn't fully love it until the revised version, which includes Kushner's cuts but also a great many other changes as well (including using some of the structure from the miniseries, though not, alas, including the miniseries-only final scene between Hannah and Joe). And while Prior going to heaven could still be shortened, his final scene with the Angel is breathtaking. I'm in the minority, but I find "Millenium" a bit dull; it's a nice, tidy build-up to the chaos, and while it does its job well, it doesn't excite me in the same way as the back half. |
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| re: The Kushner approved cuts to "Perestroika" -- are they used? | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue (tmdonahue@yahoo.com) 11:51 am EDT 10/31/17 | |
| In reply to: re: The Kushner approved cuts to "Perestroika" -- are they used? - Singapore/Fling 11:03 am EDT 10/31/17 | |
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| I saw the tv transmission of the NT staging and the second part is much improved from my memory of the Broadway production. In fact, I thought that there were not just cuts but a whole new scene. (I'd describe it now but it could be a spoiler.) At least, I didn't remember it. | |
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| re: The Kushner approved cuts to "Perestroika" -- are they used? | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:48 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
| In reply to: re: The Kushner approved cuts to "Perestroika" -- are they used? - tmdonahue 11:51 am EDT 10/31/17 | |
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| Which scene are you thinking of? The current script is actually the second revision of "Perestroika". Kushner made his first revision a few years after the Broadway production, and there are two different editions of the original published "Perestroika" with the Broadway-era art work. The first revision is published in the HBO tie-in edition that collected the two parts into a complete text (and was still in the version on sale in the UK as of 2015). |
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| The combined version, but with original artwork -- new revision? | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 04:06 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 04:05 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
| In reply to: re: The Kushner approved cuts to "Perestroika" -- are they used? - Singapore/Fling 01:48 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
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| I wanted to buy the double edition, but wondered if it's just the two (original) halves in one volume. Which I've had since they were first printed. Thanks to this thread, I want to read Perestroika again, with all changed done by Kushner. Glad I brought this up. I was truly in the dark about the changes. |
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| re: The combined version, but with original artwork -- new revision? | |
| Posted by: dlevy 04:20 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
| In reply to: The combined version, but with original artwork -- new revision? - Delvino 04:05 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
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| You want the one published in 2013 with the words "revised and complete edition" on the cover. | |
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