two of the major things I took away from the show were that Prince and his collaborators had a wide knowledge base of things beyond American theatre which informed, and sometimes sparked, their creativity and that he and his collaborators respected each others abilities. The Francis Bacon painting that spurred Aronson for the Company set, with Prince thinking 'good luck with that,' and giving Billington that picture of light streaming into Grand Central as an image for Sweeney and his giving Bennett his head in Follies really showed how his belief in their abilities didn't need micromanaging.
Does/did Pretty Women or Jersey Boys require that kind of general background knowledge, or that their production teams were that much in sync? (not a put down of the teams) |
