| re: Lillias White was brilliant |
| Last Edit: pecansforall 01:12 pm EDT 06/28/20 |
| Posted by: pecansforall 01:10 pm EDT 06/28/20 |
| In reply to: Lillias White was brilliant - PlayWiz 12:42 pm EDT 06/28/20 |
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Michael Bennett's incredible, cinematic staging was a wonder to behold again.
Agreed, although I missed the towers gracefully gliding around the stage on their own by way of automation. Bob Avian said that it looked like the actors were pushing refrigerators around the stage. Which reminds me, people often refer to the towers and bridges in the original production as "computerized" but I don't think computers were used for scenery automation at that time. The stagehands manually controlled the winches that mechanically moved the towers and bridges. Of that original production I think Robin Wagner said something to the effect of if one of the stagehands was out sick and a replacement stagehand was controlling the movement you could tell because everything wasn't perfectly synchronized. Robin Wagner's set was brilliant.
Many critics said that the revival without the automated towers allowed the plot to be clearer because they claimed the original towers were distracting. I disagree. |
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