| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. |
| Posted by: theatreguy40 05:15 pm EDT 04/06/23 |
| In reply to: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - kieran 08:12 pm EDT 04/04/23 |
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I saw the production when it played at St. Ann's Warehouse. Appalling - to say the least. While the director and cast constantly decried that "not a word has been changed" -- well that may be -- but the stage directions (written by the playwright Oscar Hammerstein) certainly have. Jud's death is completely the invention of director Daniel Fish and goes totally against what Oscar Hammerstein had written. So in a sense while a "word" may not have been changed, the intentions of the playwright certainly have!
The whole current revival has twisted the show completely out of shape to make it what Daniel Fish wants and not what the writers intended. Whatever "themes" or "ideas" that Fish wanted to explore should have been explored with a NEW piece and not try to shoe-horn it or force it into an existing play. I believe that's why most audiences rebell against the current revival.
And the ballet --- totally incomprehensible in meaning to most audiences --- again, trying to say something that was never intended by the original writers...
Just my 2 cents (and many many many others as well) |
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