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| Yes! This!!! ^^^ | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 02:18 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
| In reply to: Longbottom, Pimpernel - Singapore/Fling 01:03 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
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| Longbottom's staging of Side Show was beyond brilliant. Its Brechtian opening sequence's use of metaphor was incredibly powerful and, for me, infinitely more satisfying than the realism used by the revival. His revisal of Pimpernel improved the show more than I think anyone, including me, ever thought possible. Why hasn't he worked more in the NYC musical theatre scene?!? |
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| re: Yes! This!!! ^^^ | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 05:16 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
| In reply to: Yes! This!!! ^^^ - GabbyGerard 02:18 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
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| Even if one felt that Longbottom's work on the original SIDE SHOW was brilliant (and I don't agree), I'm very surprised, based on his subsequent work, that anyone expected him to have a great career, or that anyone would have to ask why he doesn't work more. I for one did not consider his version of PIMPERNEL notably superior to the original, only different. And then it was one artistic and/or financial failure after another, from FLOWER DRUM SONG to BYE BYE BIRDIE to that tour of DREAMGIRLS. His BIRDIE was so shockingly bad in so many ways, including the direction, that I was pretty sure it would end his career right then and there -- but he has continued to work thereafter, if not very often and not on Broadway. | |
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| Posted by: GabbyGerard 06:08 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Yes! This!!! ^^^ - Michael_Portantiere 05:16 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
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| I totally forgot about that wretched production of Bye Bye Birdie--easily the worst production I've seen at Roundabout, probably the worst revival of anything I've seen on Broadway, and definitely in the top (bottom?) ten worst musical productions I've ever seen on Broadway. That being said, I genuinely liked his production of Dreamgirls, which I forgot he directed. I know there's talk of bringing the Casey Nicholaw production to Broadway from the West End. I also know that there are a lot of strong feelings on this board about the necessity of authenticity in representation. But, sweet Jesus, if we have our fourth major production of Dreamgirls in NYC and it's the fourth directed by a WHITE MAN, my "Black ass" (Effie's words!) will be outside that theater protesting. Longbtoom also did a stellar production of Hay Fever at the Old Globe with Alan Campbell and an early-career Santino Fontana whose every second onstage announced him as a star-to-be. |
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