| re: I am an inspiring teacher, thanks for noticing |
| Posted by: keikekaze 04:43 pm EDT 03/20/22 |
| In reply to: re: I am an inspiring teacher, thanks for noticing - KingSpeed 03:06 am EDT 03/20/22 |
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[1] “Hardly anybody” is going to see most Broadway shows. Billions on the planet but only 1500 seats in a theater.
[2] Also- do you feel the same way about the Company rewrite? Is it different because Sondheim approved?
[3] What about the Sam Mendes Cabaret revival? MAJOR changes from the original. Should he have just written a different show?
1. I'm not going to bicker about what "hardly anybody" means, as I'm not the person who introduced the concept into this thread that tampering with a show was kind-of-excused if it didn't run long or wasn't seen by many.
2. The Company revisal is a mess. (But I had problems with the original Company, too--it's never been a favorite of mine.) Sondheim's personal approval removes some of my objection about tampering with other people's work uninvited, but doesn't change the fact that the revisal is a mess that might damage the show's reputation--if anybody remembered it in the future.
3. Mendes did Cabaret no favors (except financially, of course). Major changes, as you say--and all of them for the worse. God forbid that Sam Mendes should actually write anything, but I wish he'd inflicted his directorial damage on something else. |
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