| I was in high school when the tour came to DC. With projections for sets (one of the first, and well done) the show was very clever and with "12th Night" as a loose basis, enjoyable. But its score was of the moment, pop and earnest, and the production small-scaled, a bit lost on a big stage. Off B'way hits re-tooled to tour bigger houses sometimes suffered. A few years later it returned to the Washington Monument's summer theater grounds, and it was delightful outdoors. I doubt it would work today since the score is so slight, its message ("do your own thing...") slightly square-ish. Still, I guess with its "gender-bending" (phrase no longer in the lexicon) it foreshadowed our era. But that goes back to Shakespeare. |
