And again, I ask how you propose to do that on shows where the creative team made the thing thirty or more years ago, unless you bring in people to completely supplant their work? I can't be the only person wondering this, since Encores just DID this. Twice. In one season.
You can't just hire a director or set designer on an old work and think that their creative contribution is somehow going to overwrite the actual text of a show. Hell, they tried to do this with the Fish "Oklahoma!" and many, many people felt his staging of it clashed with the words being said and the songs being sung. In that case, I BELIEVE he was intentionally setting out to disquiet, and he succeeded if that was his intent. But City Center isn't trying to jar its audience; it's trying to make new narratives out of old scraps. And so far the reviews don't suggest they've succeeded. |
