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| re: i wasn't thinking of it in the 60s | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:32 pm EST 02/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: i wasn't thinking of it in the 60s - Chromolume 05:03 pm EST 02/25/19 | |
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| "Someone could write a new show about that. Easier than trying to shoehorn an old show into a new setting that really doesn't fit all that easily. I wish we had more of the former and so much less of the latter." Agreed, 100 percent. |
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| re: i wasn't thinking of it in the 60s | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 09:52 am EST 02/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: i wasn't thinking of it in the 60s - Michael_Portantiere 11:32 pm EST 02/25/19 | |
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| Absolutely...this has come here recently again with the latest KISS ME KATE revisal, but I think there are a lot of musicals that are of their times and have book issues that make people ask questions when those shows are revived. But there's a lot of fodder there for contemporary writers to take the bare bones of story and characters, with permission, I assume, from estates, and write something new that asks what that story or those characters might be in modern times. Another one that comes to mind is show that's actually really terrific, but also really of its time...THE PAJAMA GAME. Why isn't someone writing a contemporary musical about the machinations of a negotiation between a union and the management of a factory and how that's affected or not when one of the union negotiators falls in love with a member of management? That's a potentially really compelling idea that could bring a lot of contemporary issues about what it means to work in a factory in the 21st Century and the divide between blue and white collar workers. And you'd still have your love story, which could be between a female superintendent and a male floor worker or two men or two women or maybe one of them is non-binary or trans or something else...the point being that taking the bare bones story out of the idyllic, cartoony 1950's of the original opens up so many possibilities, without doing any harm to the original, which would, of course, still exist and still be great. |
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| re: i wasn't thinking of it in the 60s | |
| Posted by: Broadwaywannabe 10:30 pm EST 02/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: i wasn't thinking of it in the 60s - JereNYC 09:52 am EST 02/26/19 | |
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| The gay version of If My Friends Could See Me Now at Broadway Backwards last year (or perhaps the year before) with Jay Armstrong Johnson as Charity was wonderful (I cant find it on YouTube now) and for me worked really well so I had the same question that dramedy asked. I dont know the show that well so I appreciate the discussion in this thread. | |
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