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| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 02:34 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
| In reply to: re: I think the ideal correction would be . . . - pagates 01:12 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
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| ***Another question that occurs to me in all this is what differences might there be between English (British) grammar in 1912/13 and 1955/56 and 2021. I trust the relevant rules and expectations for grammar would be those that were current in Edwardian England. I don't pretend to know what they were, but I venture that they have been changes.*** Excellent point! |
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| re: I think the ideal correction would be . . . | |
| Posted by: pagates 10:31 am EDT 04/03/21 | |
| In reply to: re: I think the ideal correction would be . . . - Michael_Portantiere 02:34 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
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| Thank you for your excellent original post! It has stimulated an outstanding, thoughtful, instructive, and uncommonly enjoyable thread about a musical I have long held as one of the giants of the century, if evidenced only by this conversation it prompted. I saw it first as the movie in ’64 (I grew up in the hinterlands), and not onstage until 2011 (in a respectable summer stock production). But it was in seeing the most recent LCT production - three times - that I was able fully to appreciate (or to fully appreciate) its richness and wit, its depth and its power, its highs and its lows. I loved all three viewings, but was most deeply moved by the two I saw with Benanti and Haden-Paton (with changes in supporting cast). It's great to be reminded of them all. I will say that while the movie has great charm, it never reached me the way the stage production did. Possibly because of my age difference on viewings, but I prefer to think that the “life” of a stage production offers emotional depth that a movie musical rarely - if ever - achieves. The fixedness and gloss of film is valuable in many ways, but live art engages the whole person more fully and complexly. I suppose that’s why it has devotees like us on this board and thread. | |
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