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| Cincinnati Conservatory of Music final scene | |
| Last Edit: jeffef 12:17 pm EST 12/30/21 | |
| Posted by: jeffef 12:14 pm EST 12/30/21 | |
| In reply to: i found the final image of film to be a baffling misstep... - Chazwaza 09:54 pm EST 12/29/21 | |
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| We did a great production in the early 1970’s. Our director had a brilliant, IMO, final moment. Both the sharks and jets walked off in opposite directions leaving Tony lying on the ground with only Maria crying over him. This is great ending, since we were then and still are fighting divisive cultures. The image was powerful and showed that violence does not solve and never will bring people together. |
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| re: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music final scene | |
| Posted by: Ordoc 05:12 am EST 12/31/21 | |
| In reply to: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music final scene - jeffef 12:14 pm EST 12/30/21 | |
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| Sorry, but your director violated the copyright. Did he/she get permission to change the ending? The ending in the script is how the authors wanted/intended the musical to end! | |
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| re: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music final scene | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 09:27 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music final scene - Ordoc 05:12 am EST 12/31/21 | |
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| Sorry, but your director violated the copyright. Did he/she get permission to change the ending? The ending in the script is how the authors wanted/intended the musical to end! Not quite. I think that only matters if actual text spoken or sung by the cast is changed. Stage directions don't hold the same kind of weight - and certainly as long as the director doesn't change the essential truth of the scene. (For instance, putting Annie back in the orphanage at the end of that show - that went too far from the original intention.) That said, some directors go too far in terms of literally ignoring the printed stage directions because they were somehow taught that is what they should do. I was doing rehearsal piano once for a college production of How To Succeed, and I remember watching the young director at one point literally whiting out all the stage directions in her script. So - the show lacked its final original punchline, because it's only in the stage directions. As the cast sings "for the departed we shed a mournful tear," we're supposed to see Frump outside washing the windows, just as Finch had done at the top of the show. But since that was ignored, the lyric went for nothing, and the final clever joke of the show never happened. Was that "violating copyright?" No. But it was stupidity, because the director seemed to think that the stage directions simply didn't matter, period. She didn't look at the original intention and say, "I think I have another way of making this work" - she just had no idea what she was doing. |
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| re: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music final scene | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 02:25 pm EST 12/30/21 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:17 pm EST 12/30/21 | |
| In reply to: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music final scene - jeffef 12:14 pm EST 12/30/21 | |
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| I do like that. Though I will say I think the creators wanted, rightfully, to leave the audience with an emotionally cathartic moment of hope after so much darkness. The idea that the gangs could be coming together even if just to carry off this dead body doesn't assume they will stop waring for ever or ever get along, I find it to be without the saccharine falseness that might be at the ending of a musical with this kind of issue... at least if done well. I wonder how it would feel to watch the ending you guys did in the 70s. I could easily see a director today changing the end so that after the gangs walk off (together or separately), and then... lights change slightly, and Anybodies or someone else, or a random younger kid off the street we haven't identified before, picks up the gun off the street and looks at it intently. I would hate this ending, but it seems to be exactly the cliche sentiment (in several contexts) tacked onto the end of shows with ambiguous or possibly "problematic" endings. |
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