| re: Could the original have run longer with bigger star replacements? | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:55 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Could the original have run longer with bigger star replacements? - Michael_Portantiere 11:13 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| completely agree! First of all, Sweeney doesn't have a "simple theme of revenge", it has many themes, and the lyrics play into these themes in ways that make it very clear to me this wasn't mean to just be a scary tale about revenge. But I'm not sure in what way people who make this assertion think was taken away from the revenge tale by the set and scope of Prince's concept. It also worked mainly as a setting and a way the scenes moved from one to another, but the playing of the scenes and songs themselves usually had very little to do with the industrial revolution elements or bigger factory set, because they played in a pie shop or barbershop set. I'd say the production that distracted from the actual material most was Doyle's revival set in an insane asylum. (a production I largely loved, despite that) Directors who don't let the scenes just play as written but instead apply or insert another visual metaphor or story or theme, as Doyle did constantly, distract far more than Prince's set or visual concept did. Also, as you point out, the score is not written as a simple revenge story. It is a booming operatic score. There's very little that's small about the characters, story, themes or music. I'm not sure where everyone got the idea that it's better served by a small production. I think Sondheim saying he'd originally envision it small has made many think that is how he wrote it. It seems to be that he adapted his writing to Prince's vision early on because musically and lyrically it is not written that way - small or simple, or focused on just being scary or about revenge. |
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