| The problem is… | |
| Last Edit: ShowGoer 02:03 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 01:59 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| In reply to: Funny Girl last night - Indavidzopinion 07:51 am EDT 07/31/22 | |
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| (and this is coming from someone who’s well on the record as liking Feldstein): “There was so much added drama, every time the Fierstein revised script emphasized the theme: Yes, I’ve been knocked down, but I’m going on with my life, and hopefully better things.” This isn’t the theme of Funny Girl, and there’s almost no universe in which anyone could construe that it is. Quite the opposite, it’s a show about someone who basically never gets knocked down because she has such an ironclad belief in herself and her own destiny of stardom. (The most one can say in support of the above is that she reaches a crisis in her marriage… but then, as before, ultimately realizes that she’s better off without him and, as usual, didn’t need him all along. ) That’s “Funny Girl” on the page, at least (and it’s a problem with “Funny Girl”, frankly)… but if you described it to anyone as the story of someone who keeps getting knocked down but then always eventually realizes that whatever else, life has to go on – even the writers of the show wouldn’t recognize it as the play they wrote. That’s not the story of Fanny Brice, it’s the Book of Job. This production, more than any before, reveals the flaws inherent in the material, because however charming and skillful Feldstein was, the casting is so at odds (even putting aside the fact that post-opening-night she managed little more than half of her performances) with the general indomitable spirit of who this character is supposed to be. |
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