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re: After watching the Hal Prince PBS documentary, I now understand why I find most current musicals a bunch of crap.
Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:45 am EST 11/29/18
In reply to: re: After watching the Hal Prince PBS documentary, I now understand why I find most current musicals a bunch of crap. - JereNYC 11:40 am EST 11/29/18

"I can only imagine that working on a show like PRETTY WOMAN would have involved A LOT of Prince going back to the writers and telling them that the work isn't good enough and to go back and try it again." ....and again, and again, and again.... :-)
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re: After watching the Hal Prince PBS documentary, I now understand why I find most current musicals a bunch of crap.
Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 11:53 am EST 11/29/18
In reply to: re: After watching the Hal Prince PBS documentary, I now understand why I find most current musicals a bunch of crap. - Michael_Portantiere 11:45 am EST 11/29/18

Well, Kander and Ebb had to go back to the drawing board multiple times, at Prince's direction, before they came up with "Where You Are" for KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN, so going back again, and again, and again worked in that instance. So a Harold Prince-directed PRETTY WOMAN might also have been much improved. Of course, the writers of PRETTY WOMAN are no Kander and Ebb, but then who is?
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