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| Right??? | |
| Last Edit: KingSpeed 01:36 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 01:35 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: "Music from The Life" album - babs1950 08:10 pm EDT 03/14/22 | |
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| What the heck is going on? To be fair to Porter, he proposed his ideas to the estate and they said yes. So he's doing what he thinks is best for the piece even though this is not the mission of Encores. | |
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| re: Right??? | |
| Posted by: schlepper 12:33 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: Right??? - KingSpeed 01:35 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| It's obvious why the Estate(s) would say yes -- I'm sure THE LIFE isn't bringing in a lot of stock and amateur licensing money -- so something is better than nothing. But it remains a mystery why they are calling this an Encores production? If Billy wants to tell a different story, with different music, he should gather a team and create one from scratch. To all of those who kept calling for Jack Viertel to turn over the reins -- be careful of what you wish for! | |
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| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 12:59 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Right??? - schlepper 12:33 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| The fundamental question that you ask here is one that I find myself often asking at Encores! and at full scale revivals of shows from other eras. If you, as a creative person, don't like this piece, don't revive it. Go write your own show and make it what you want it to be and say what you want to say in exactly the way you want to say it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with saying that some particular title is of its own era and hasn't aged well. So be it. Use it as an inspiration for your own work and move forward. I exempt from this sentiment "revisals" done by the original creative team, such as the 1966 ANNIE GET YOUR GUN revival, the 1986 SWEET CHARITY revival, and, as much as I didn't care for all the changes made, the 2002 INTO THE WOODS revival. If you, as the creator, want to make changes to your own work, have at it. |
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| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:21 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Right??? - JereNYC 12:59 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| Sometimes the original creatives are the worst people to reconsider their material. James Lapine is particularly egregious at making changes that dilute the power of the original production/material. Give me Daniel Fish any day over James Lapine. As for "The Life", reading that they're putting some stank on the music is the first time that I've been interested in seeing this production (I saw the original on Broadway... and it was not good), but alas, not enough to drop $50 on TodayTix. |
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| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 03:53 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Right??? - Singapore/Fling 01:21 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| Well, I certainly agree about Lapine, at least as far as his changes to INTO THE WOODS in 2002 go, but my point was that this was Lapine (and Sondheim) making changes to THEIR OWN WORK, not someone else's. That is their prerogative, just as, if Da Vinci had decided to revisit the Mona Lisa and put her in a red cocktail dress, that would've been his prerogative. That is entirely different to what's happening with THE LIFE and what we see with revivals in general, where the original creative team is dead and other people are rewriting them. As we'll see with the upcoming THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH at Lincoln Center, even plays are not immune. Someone will be rewriting Thornton Wilder...and we'll see how it goes. |
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| re: Right??? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 12:30 am EDT 03/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Right??? - JereNYC 03:53 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| I think I disagree with that. Once someone creates art, it then belongs to all of us. I don’t think it is the prerogative of an artist to change his prior work. | |
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