This insanely false premise that they've excavated all they need to for mounting relatively "as they were", and now it's time to reinvent for the future is really, well, false. Not only were many of the Encores revivals not the ideal production in terms of cast and direction and could be well served to be tried again, these runs are extremely short and seen by relatively few people. The could start over and produce paired down concert-staging revivals of every show they've already done with different casts/creative teams and there'd be no problem and many many new audiences who didn't get to see the show, never heard of it, or are happy to see it again in a new production, could have the chance to experience these shows.
Re-conceiving and "fixing" shows from the past, specifically to please a current day audience's sensibilities, tailoring them to this audience, with most of the authors nor even alive to weigh in, is foolish. |
