| I think it's tough to generalize. I saw Travesties in 1975 at the Ethel Barrymore. I was 17. I thought it was terrific. If I were seeing it for the first time now. I'm not sure I'd feel that way. Of course, the quality of a production, and the choices made, also affects people's responses. When I was 17, I'm sure that I felt very smart to like it, and the fact that I didn't get everything didn't bother me, just as it didn't bother me at Jumpers a few years before or at Home in 1971 or Old Times later that year. And, again, a production's choices enter into people's responses. I sat at the revival of Jumpers with Simon Russell Beale watching people steadily stream out during act one. In that case, I certainly felt that the production was partly at fault. |
