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| re: Questions about the new MERRILY | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:16 am EST 01/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Questions about the new MERRILY - Michael_Portantiere 11:13 pm EST 01/02/19 | |
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| None of the revision is credited to James Lapine, and I think George Furth might be upset if he knew someone thought that. Lapine was allowed to make some changes for Encores! I wonder if Sondheim was given the power by Furth to make all these types of decisions for the shows they wrote together. Most of the changes were just cuts and perhaps some slight restructuring within scenes, but there was the one big change in the last scene, which Sondheim, rightly, seems to have decided was a mistake. I wonder what Furth would think of the new Company. |
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| re: Questions about the new MERRILY | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:12 am EST 01/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Questions about the new MERRILY - AlanScott 12:16 am EST 01/03/19 | |
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| I put "uncredited" in parentheses because I'm pretty sure I remember someone who should know insisting to me that at least some of the script revisions to MERRILY were made by, but not credited to, Lapine -- rather than Furth -- either for or pursuant to the production he directed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 1985. Is that completely untrue? | |
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| re: Questions about the new MERRILY | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 02:49 pm EST 01/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Questions about the new MERRILY - Michael_Portantiere 10:12 am EST 01/03/19 | |
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| And it's possible that he did. He clearly made suggestions. I just think that Furth would be annoyed that people said that or thought that. Still, I suspect that Furth was not the type to let other writers actually write any dialogue for him, although he did sort of steal a line in Company from a Julius Monk revue, but he rephrased it, and perhaps did not remember where he had gotten it. |
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| re: Questions about the new MERRILY | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 10:20 am EST 01/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Questions about the new MERRILY - Michael_Portantiere 10:12 am EST 01/03/19 | |
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| I seem to recall once upon a time that collaborator agreements usually only required a majority of collaborators to agree to changes, not all of them. I know on a musical that I am rewriting the book of , I needed just the consent of 2 of 3 book writers, but not composer (whose estate was elusive and still is - and we're talking a major composer)... | |
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