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| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 05:29 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: It's. Up. For. Grabs. - portenopete 03:13 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| The play’s roll out was in two parts, first because Kushner was developing it through productions (not unlike Sunday at Playwrights being mainly the first act), and then because the Broadway producers knew it would be easier to market and sell tickets if it debuted one play at a time, with the bonus of two awards seasons. Once Kushner completed the play - which actually wasn’t until twenty years after the Broadway premiere - it has since been produced in New York twice as a complete play; it is primarily published as a complete play, with that indicated on the cover page; Kushner talks about it as one play; it functions dramaturgically as one play; and it was presented on television as one play (though it was adapted from 8 acts into 6). It’s one play. |
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| re: It's. Up. For. Grabs. | |
| Posted by: ryhog 07:08 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: re: It's. Up. For. Grabs. - Singapore/Fling 05:29 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| I know you want it to be thus, but it just isn't. The BPP scripts are separately purchased (with a discount for bundling). There have been single part productions around the country (and probably world) as well as productions with different casts for the parts. Moreover, there have been plenty of unbundled productions including, as I recall, the one you refer to above, at Signature. (I recall this specifically because I went back to see one part with the original cast and the 2nd part with the replacements. I don't recall about the Broadway revival [for which I did not have to buy the tickets]). We used to see a lot of one acts bundled but that doesn't make them the same play, nor does the way the author thinks about them. Famously, some playwrights spent most of their lives rewriting the same play. :-) ) Having said all this, I really don't think it matters nor is it worth all of the sturm und drang. |
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| re: It's. Up. For. Grabs. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 05:36 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: re: It's. Up. For. Grabs. - Singapore/Fling 05:29 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| Thanks for that cogently-argued take. Without the pique (and the periods), it's so much easier to hear :). | |
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