I've seen the production four times if you count its incarnation in London.
And I did not mean to damn yesterday's performance with faint praise. On the contrary, it was, as I said in my post, one of the most exciting afternoons I've ever spent in a theater. The symbiosis between the performers and the audience was so electric, it elevated the production to the realm of the fantastic, maybe even the mythic. And this was in spite of, not because of, Mayer's direction and Fierstein's revisions, which I maintain are subpar. |
