| re: so sad it wasn't filmed |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 06:44 pm EST 03/11/22 |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:37 pm EST 03/11/22 |
| In reply to: re: so sad it wasn't filmed - Chromolume 06:32 pm EST 03/11/22 |
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I don't entirely disagree... I liked it a lot at the time but as an experiment more than a way I want new generations to see it and think it should be performed/directed.
But Sondheim clearly loved it... though he says he loves every Broadway revival. But his continued work and adoration of the work done by Doyle in reviving his shows (Sweeney Todd and Company on broadway, both to huge acclaim and some Tonys, and off-broadway revivals of Passion, Pacific Overtures and Assassins) and trusting him as the director to "fix" Road Show and bring it to NYC finally... makes me sure he did love Doyle's Sweeney. And at the very least I know Sondheim has been clearly he originally envisioned Sweeney as a small unsettling chamber piece, and Doyle's certainly leads into that in a way Prince's fought against it. I would assume especially when that revival was getting such raves that Sondheim would have wanted it preserved to make sure the world knew it was just as much meant to be done in that kind of production as the Prince production preserved on film with Lansbury, which so many productions have taken inspiration (or copied outright) from over the decades since. |
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