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| Last Edit: dramedy 05:40 pm EDT 06/16/22 |
| Posted by: dramedy 05:37 pm EDT 06/16/22 |
| In reply to: SQUARE ONE - ArnoldMBrockman 03:31 pm EDT 06/16/22 |
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One can assume it fairly far along in the structure and songs. Sondheim was expecting a year to get to broadway from the reading. Unfortunately, I do think he does a lot of tinkering while in previews and out of town shows like developing Gold to Road Show. Can someone do the rewrites in his voice is really the question.
I personally don’t have much hope in it being good. Although I liked road show and think it has one of the best love songs he ever wrote, it pales in comparison to his great works. I think many would argue that even passion and assassins fall short and really his last great work was Into the woods, which is produced often. But that probably is true of most great teams like kander and ebb and cy coleman hitting broadway in their 3os with later shows dwindling in success (curtains, the visit, steel pier). Rodger and Hammerstein really had great success as a team rather late in their careers starting around age 40 where both had other partners earlier with broadway success. |
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