| re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "SWEET CHARITY" in CINCINNATI |
| Posted by: AnObserver 11:26 am EDT 10/02/23 |
| In reply to: re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "SWEET CHARITY" in CINCINNATI - Robt 10:32 am EDT 10/02/23 |
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The review doesn't exactly answer my question, which was a satirical comment about what's being done with other older shows. The reviewer's comment about the ending being not "audience-friendly" reveals so much. Does the reviewer not know the Fellini movie (about a prostitute), or what a dark person Fosse was? (Fosse was the original director of "Sweet Charity.") Or that at one time, not every show had a happy ending?
I wonder if the estates of Simon and the rest will ever allow Charity to be "updated," the way the Meredith Willson allowed Molly Brown to be "updated."
My point? Go and read Elisabeth Vincentelli's (female) review of the rewritten "Molly Brown" from 2020 in The NY Times where she says, "Where's the moral ambiguity?" Sounds like "Sweet Charity" may still have its moral ambiguity, but for how long?
Provocation isn't necessarily a bad thing. |
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