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. |
