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| re: Another Show Most People Like, But I Didn't: Desperate Measures | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 08:23 pm EDT 06/24/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Another Show Most People Like, But I Didn't: Desperate Measures - AlanScott 06:57 pm EDT 06/24/18 | |
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| Sorry, Alan Scott. I wasn’t clear. You are correct; there are few if any rhymes in Shakespeare’s original, « Measure for Measure, » and the verse is very dense if I remember, with a lot of feminine endings. No. What I meant was that the script for « Desperate Measures, » this new musical about a novitiate, a bawd, a sheriff, and gunslingers in the Old Western US...this musical’s script (libretto, shall I say) is, charmingly, in iambic pentameter with most if not all of it in rhyming couplets. Really. And really fun. |
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| re: Another Show Most People Like, But I Didn't: Desperate Measures | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:10 pm EDT 06/24/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Another Show Most People Like, But I Didn't: Desperate Measures - lordofspeech 08:23 pm EDT 06/24/18 | |
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| Sorry that I misunderstood you. I wondered but you spoke of "the play's text." Anyway, I haven't seen the musical, but it is interesting to hear that the book is mostly in iambs and rhyming couplets. Measure for Measure is a Shakespeare that I especially love, and I fear that I would hold any musical version to an impossibly high standard. It does sound as if this one takes such an essentially free approach, probably in part to make clear that it is not intended to be taken as any sort of straightforward musical version, so perhaps I'd put aside my love for the play and enjoy the musical on its own terms, as I'm sure they hope folks will do. But sometimes I'm pretty closed-minded about these things. :) |
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| re: Another Show Most People Like, But I Didn't: Desperate Measures | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 07:31 am EDT 06/25/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Another Show Most People Like, But I Didn't: Desperate Measures - AlanScott 09:10 pm EDT 06/24/18 | |
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| OK - its me saying this - saw this show a the York, hearing so much good about it, and found it depressing witless and charm free. It focuses all of its energy on the parts of the story that are most dicey, like the 'bed trick'. I'm a big Shakespeare fan - have seen many MFM productions, and directed two, This musical is a 'desperate measure' indeed. All good grace to those who seem to love it. I was at a loss to understand why as was my companion at the show. And the underpopulated cast doesnt help anything except the bottom line. IMHO. |
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