| re: Rags at NYU | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:05 am EST 01/29/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Rags at NYU - EvFoDr 07:20 am EST 01/29/19 | |
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| I knew the former head of the musical theater program at Steinhardt. A few years ago, he asked my advice on what show to do in the following season, because they wanted to make a big splash. He was thinking of doing MAN OF LA MANCHA because that year, 2015, was the 50th anniversary of that show, which had originally opened at the ANTA/Washington Square Theater that once stood on the site of what is now an NYU building (Tisch Hall, I think). I suggested that, while LA MANCHA was a good idea for that reason, a better choice might be RAGS, because -- get this -- the Steinhardt shows are usually performed in the very building that once housed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, the site of the horrendous, deadly fire that figures prominently in the plot of RAGS (even though the fire is not depicted on stage). I also noted that the RAGS composer and lyricist, Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz, were/are still very much with us and would almost certainly attend and support the production. These arguments didn't get through to the person in question, and he chose LA MANCHA for production after all. Obviously, RAGS was not programmed in the intervening four years. But now I'm pretty sure the person in question is gone from NYU, so maybe that has led to the production of RAGS, which I think is a very wonderful circumstance in the "better late than never" category. |
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