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| re: The point of Encores ... | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 02:49 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: This could well be the death of Encores. - ShowGoer 08:26 am EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| ... was to do forgotten, or long unrevived musicals, so that we could see what they were. The books were usually trimmed a bit. With tao dance and kid and The Life they have taken mediocre musicals that no one had really wanted to see, and rewriutten the books so that they suit the new leaders political and social whims. There is no point to this other than to beat ones breast and bray about how 'woke' you are. The audience who wants to buy tickets wants to see shows from the past, more or less warts and all, not fixed up by, sorry, hacks. | |
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| correction: *MANY* people have been wanting to see The Life at Encores... but that's not the same as Billy Porter's The Life | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:39 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The point of Encores ... - NewtonUK 02:49 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| I think, as do many of its fans, it is one of the more notable and sensationally entertaining scores written for a not very good (or perhaps even downright bad) musical, and deserves to shine in a semi-staged concert wherein the point is to celebrate a good score (written by a legendary broadway composer) in a show that is rarely produced Some Encores shows the musical is rarely produced for good reason, some it's rarely produced and deserves to be widely produced... the reason the show is "lost" isn't so much the point as just that it is, and it has a score worth dusting off and giving the royal treatment to for 6 performances with a full orchestra and top tier cast. I agree with the rest of what you said, but to equate The Life with Tap Dance Kid as shows "no one" really wanted to see... is not accurate. I have never ever been recommended to listen to the cast album of Tap Dance Kid, let alone found it myself. I have talked to MANY fans of The Life's score over the years, and I think many find it a fascinating failure more than one to be outrightly dismissed and never thought of again. Billy isn't the only one who wishes the show around the score were better. Encores should have produced a semi-staged concert of The Life, with the score as it was written. Or the revised version (revised by the authors I believe, right?) that was done in London. |
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| re: The point of Encores ... | |
| Posted by: FinalPerformance 04:03 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The point of Encores ... - NewtonUK 02:49 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| Your so on the mark. Things will change when the box office starts bleeding. Time terminate those running this disaster. | |
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