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We’ve had a ‘Not Camelot’ and a ‘Not On a Clear Day’…
Last Edit: lordofspeech 08:38 pm EDT 10/06/23
Posted by: lordofspeech 08:37 pm EDT 10/06/23
In reply to: re: The Encores "Not Pal Joey" - Chromolume 04:11 pm EDT 10/05/23

We had « Not Camelot » and « Not on a Clear Day »…Nahum Tate’s King Lear, and even the last ‘Pal Joey’ with Mathhew Risch (which I, in a minority, completely loved, especially when Martha Plimpton walked away with the show in the role for which Helen Gallagher had won her first Tony).
My point? They muck around with shows, they always have.
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re: We’ve had a ‘Not Camelot’ and a ‘Not On a Clear Day’…
Posted by: marknyc 01:18 pm EDT 10/07/23
In reply to: We’ve had a ‘Not Camelot’ and a ‘Not On a Clear Day’… - lordofspeech 08:37 pm EDT 10/06/23

And your point is completely wrong.

Obviously, we all know that musicals are often adapted, even reimagined, like Clear Day.

But you actually can't see the difference between Camelot - which changed lines and pulled ideas from the original book, while maintaining the plot, characters, and structure - to this show, which seems to have completely junked the book and written an entirely new one from scratch?

The word "adaptation" means to adapt something - to make changes, to revise and perhaps update. Not to throw it out completely and write something entirely new. That appears to be what has happened here, and if that's the case, the show should be retitled.

Again, this is not an adaptation - it's a new show.
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