"I thought about referring to RAGTIME in my post. It's probably the best recent-ish example of something that fully inherits the legacy of the Golden Age, but I imagined picking up the script and score, getting in a time machine back to 1959, and mounting it....it would feel revolutionary and unbelievably ahead of its time, particularly in certain sections. I don't think there's any way someone could have seen it as a current work."
Well, you could say the same thing about WEST SIDE STORY, to name only one example of several from back in the day. So I guess I'm not sure exactly what you mean.
As for Lin-Manuel Miranda: Seeing as how he wrote those wonderful '60s Brit pop pastiche number for King George in HAMILTON -- yes, I am quite sure he could pen a whole musical in period pastiche style, if he wanted to. And the great John Kander could probably still do it, unless you don't count him because he has actually lived and worked through five decades or more. |
