| I mean, it is a bomb, I think we can all agree on that | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:26 pm EST 02/21/21 | |
| In reply to: JESSE GREEN IS A HORROR -- Attend the Tale of ‘Anyone Can Whistle,’ Then and Now - MRH 03:55 am EST 02/21/21 | |
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| I've said before that I think Green was a much more nuanced, supportive critic when he was writing for NY Magazine, and I agree that he's become a blowhard at the Times. I find his writing about work by BIPOC and other minority artists (aside from gay men) to be particularly clumsy and self-conscious, to the extent that the Times should just stop sending him to most of those plays. That being said, I don't see how you can take offense that Green described one of the most notorious Broadway flops of the 20th Century as a bomb and noted all of its mistakes, while also praising what makes the work worthwhile. We're talking about a musical that stands alone in Sondheim's oeuvre as unproducible; it has not been revised ten thousand times like "Merrily"; it has not been rediscovered and reimagined like "The Frogs"; it has not gotten a long overdue reconsideration like "Saturday Night". It has had a few notable concert productions and been recorded a few times to preserve the genius and the chaos of the score, and there seems to be a community wide consensus that this is the best that the material deserves. By any objective measure, that's a bomb. Green is right about that. |
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