| re: At a $250 average ticket price, practically everything becomes irrelevant, except "stars" and spectacle. |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 02:16 am EST 12/01/17 |
| In reply to: re: At a $250 average ticket price, practically everything becomes irrelevant, except "stars" and spectacle. - Michael_Portantiere 05:03 pm EST 11/30/17 |
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Simon’s name was the sufficient star name for people to know they had to see his work. He was not just funny, his stories were accurate to the time he was writing, and, even before his Biloxi classics (including “Lost in Yonkers”), his plays had authentic motivations and held the mirror up to nature.
I don’t know if we have any new playwrights working at his level.
Not sure how his plays have dated. There was a “Barefoot” revival that didn’t last, and I can imagine it might be challenging for an actress playing Corey to believably commit to being that invested in being a good wife these days. And I haven’t heard of any major revivals of his work with people of color, so maybe the plays are too specifically New-York-Jewish to survive that. But maybe “Come Blow Your Horn” is due for an exciting all-star revival, with people who are not completely European-American. And “Plaza Suite”...?
He may have dated, in some ways, but his work may re-ascend in the next few years. |
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