| re: Not exactly cold-blooded murder, to me |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:58 am EDT 06/20/19 |
| In reply to: re: Not exactly cold-blooded murder, to me - Ann 10:32 am EDT 06/20/19 |
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"I don't think things like this disrespect the work of great musical theater writers,(especially) if they do it without changing what those writers wrote. "
As has been discussed here at length, including within this thread, Daniel Fish DID change what the creators of OKLAHOMA! wrote. Although many have insisted that not a word of the dialogue has been changed, this is simply not true -- cutting the reference to Jud going after Curly with a knife, and substituting a gun (even if no one actually says the word "gun"), is rewriting, and so is the addition of the line "You know what you have to do." But even if there had been zero cuts or changes to the actual dialogue, the current production has still changed what the writers wrote to a large extent, with the the incorporation of stage business that contradicts what's in the original script (such as the sex scene between Laurey and Jud, and Curly killing Jud with a gun). |
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