It was a rare case for me of preferring a revival to an original. And while I think that would have been less likely with Broadway Bound, that original production did have its problems, as well as greatness, so perhaps I would have.
I didn't even like Brighton Beach Memoirs as a play in the original production, at least not with the original cast. There were some interesting replacements. But the Cromer production was so good that I liked it more.
Oddly, it was reported that Metcalf did not like working with Cromer.
