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| re: Big error in Jennifer Tepper's otherwise marvelous "The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4" | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:45 am EDT 04/09/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Big error in Jennifer Tepper's otherwise marvelous "The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4" - Chromolume 10:50 pm EDT 04/08/21 | |
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| If we're to take Tepper at her exact word, the show would be in performances now. It's not. | |
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| Due respect, that one's a singularly nitpicky 'error' | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 01:31 pm EDT 04/09/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Big error in Jennifer Tepper's otherwise marvelous "The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4" - Chromolume 11:45 am EDT 04/09/21 | |
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| A book is not a newspaper or a magazine, and a book that's compiled as an oral history should not be filed under "current events". This is obviously written for posterity, and not for only the year 2021. Were we take you at your exact word, the book's intended audience would only be people who read it between March and (presumably) sometime late this summer/early fall (it's anybody's guess), and therefore should have been written and edited specifically and only for that group of people. For all we know, and given the pace of the publishing industry, she could've turned in final proofs of the book last summer when people (including the Broadway League) were still speculating/hoping theatre would come back in early 2021. You're faulting her for prognostication skills she never claimed to possess, and assigning her a responsibility that isn't hers, for a project designed for larger purposes and a longer shelf life. |
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| re: Due respect, that one's a singularly nitpicky 'error' | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 04:22 pm EDT 04/09/21 | |
| In reply to: Due respect, that one's a singularly nitpicky 'error' - ShowGoer 01:31 pm EDT 04/09/21 | |
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| A book is not a newspaper or a magazine, and a book that's compiled as an oral history should not be filed under "current events". This is obviously written for posterity, and not for only the year 2021. What's funny is that I take that point, but see it the other way. A book that is trying to chronical a history of a theatre might well note that production was interrrupeted for over a year due to a pandemic - something that readers in the future might want clarified. she could've turned in final proofs of the book last summer when people (including the Broadway League) were still speculating/hoping theatre would come back in early 2021. You're faulting her for prognostication skills I'm assuming that the text still could have been corrected. In any case, pecansforall asked us if we could find the "glaring error" in the quoted excerpt, and for me, to say a show is "still running" when it isn't is indeed a glaring error. But hey, only on ATC would this observation become a national crisis, lol. |
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