"People who like these old 'museum pieces', not only despite the flaws... but in some cases BECAUSE of them. That's the core base. And to alienate them by, for example, taking the fondly-remembered and Tony-nominated role of a heavyset teenage girl and making her into a generic thin adolescent whose problem is thus never quite clear, seems the apotheosis of not knowing (let alone respecting) your audience."
For what it's worth, my thought is that they don't care about respecting their core audience, and I think that is why Debessonet is there. I think that they realize that their core audience is dying out, and they are trying the more woke approach to appeal to a younger, more contemporary audience. |
