| re: THE LIFE | |
| Posted by: Phaedrusnyc 08:59 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: THE LIFE - PlazaBoy 06:47 pm EDT 03/14/22 | |
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| When I saw the original production I also was a little nonplussed by it; especially things like "Hooker's Ball," which feels like it belongs in an entirely different (and much worse) show. And there's obviously a reason it didn't run that can't entirely be blamed on the Disneyfication of Broadway and the Giulianification of Midtown. But it ultimately leaves the questions of "why this?" and "why now?" Again, not opposed to revising problematic works if it can be done in a way that adds value to the show. But the fact is, no one was demanding "The Life"; It ain't "Oklahoma!" It isn't even something with hit songs that people know out of the context of the show. Without this revival , the life of "The Life" would be over; it would only live on in people's CD collections and the memories of people who are now, at minimum, zooming toward middle age. So why dig up the corpse of a nearly forgotten show to redo it unless you, personally, were so traumatized by it that you need to spite it? The only people who care about the show are people who love it despite its flaws or people who already dislike it so much that they aren't going to be interested in seeing it. If you need a lesser Cy Coleman show, there's "Barnum," "Seesaw," "I Love My Wife," "Will Rogers Follies"--hell, even "Welcome to the Club" is probably an easier show to "fix" than this one is. It's just an odd move. I get that City Center now needs to put its money where its mouth is as far as the public promises of anti-racism, but surely there were better candidates than this one. If APAC could manage a decent production of "Raisin" it's hard to imagine City Center can't. |
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