| Yes I do, and the point is, that having brushed up an existing property by rewriting a few bits here and there is not the same as having written it, that is, having created it out of thin air or even having adapted it from another medium. Mendes didn't "write Cabaret," and Sorkin hasn't "written Camelot." At most, they've rewritten some of it--and for the worse, as nearly always happens in these cases. I suppose it's nearly always going to happen when you're piggybacking on somebody else's work, only somebody else's work doesn't say what you want it to say, but you're not about to write your own show to say what you want to say (as you should) because you damn well want that pre-existing score to sell "your" revival. |
