| re: Within the context of this particular current production | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:56 pm EDT 08/28/19 | |
| In reply to: Within the context of this particular current production - aleck 10:00 am EDT 08/28/19 | |
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| "There have been many reconsiderations in this production of the text as it has been performed since its original production. However, I don't think that in most cases of these reconsiderations that they are invalid. I think, for example, that the way the final 'trial' scene is staged and spoken that ALL of the characters know that what they are doing is wrong." But this is not a good example of your thesis, because while the text of the trial scene remains the same in the current production, both the staging AND the text of the scene of Jud's death -- which is what Curley's on trial for -- has been changed. I think the huge change in the staging has been covered enough that I don't need to detail it again, but the textual changes involve the addition of one line -- right before the murder, Jud hands Curly a gun and says, "You know what you have to do" -- and the cutting of another line or two --in the scene as originally written by Hammerstein, when Jud is killed in the struggle, Curly and or someone else says something like "He fell on his own knife, stuck clean through the ribs." So it may be true that, in the trial scene in THIS production, all of the characters know what they are doing is wrong, but it arguably wouldn't be "wrong" if the staging were the original and Jud fell on his own knife during his struggle with Curly, rather than Curly shooting an unarmed man at point-blank range. "I had never seen Lonely Room performed with such intensity. He made a buffoonish character into a truly living, breathing person." I'm guessing you saw neither Martin Vidnovic nor Shuler Hensley as Jud in the last two Broadway revivals of the show, because I certainly thought both of them made Jud a living, breathing person rather than a buffoon, and I believe most if not all of the critics felt as I did. |
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