| ... 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. |
