Sorry but ALW is the last writer who needs to worry about his work being produced or not, especially one of his most popular and acclaimed works. Most musicals also do not have the biggest pop star in the entire world fighting to star in a movie of your musical let alone a musical which by that point wasn't even in his top 2 biggest earners! (what can compete though with Cats and Phantom?!)
And obviously it goes without saying we have very very different views and opinions on what makes this show work, and on the Grandage revival. (I also wouldn't say it took "another view", i'd say it removed the idea of taking a view at all)
And like I said in the thread, I don't think Prince's specific staging is the only way to see or do the show, but I do think the intention of his his *direction*, his concept for staging it and his reasons and intentions for staging it as he specifically did should be considered part of the writing of Evita, and so productions that aren't his should be tasked with coming up with their own versions of that foundational "direction" that made it a layered and compelling and functioning theater piece rather than a concept album. Your new concept for the concept should be better than "let's just literally set it in the literal locations each scene seems to take place in, and have lot of choreography!" |
