| re: they are (mostly) not published separately | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 05:46 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: they were/are published separately, and produced separately - Chazwaza 06:45 pm EDT 10/07/23 | |
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| Broadway does a version that is two books, but the primary published version, and the one intended for casual readers, is the single “Revised and Complete Edition”. Kushner has always been clear that he was commissioned to write a play, but as he began working on it, he realized that his story was too big to fit into one single evening, and he realized (eventually) that once the world cracks open at the end of Act 3, there was no way to make the rest of the play stay in a neat-and-tidy 3-act structure, even though it of commonly performed with two intervals (this is why Perestroika is up to an hour longer in performance). Due to a variety of factors, the first part premiered as commissioned in San Francisco, while the second part was still being written. (I’m fairly certain of this, but my copy of the play is in the office right now, so I can’t double check it. It’s possible that production did have both parts. But I don’t think so, because I think Ellen McLaughlin was the first Angel to do part two.) In fact, the play that premiered on Broadway, and won the awards was not the finished version of the play. Even while it was being performed on Broadway, Kushner continue to make revisions to the second half of the play, which is why there are two published versions of Perestroika from the 90s. And then, Kushner made a number of revisions when he adapted the play into the TV version that then worked their way back into the play, as well as more revisions that he created during the production at the Signature Theater in New York City. Then, and only then, was the play finished, or at least, as finished as Kushner thought he could ever make it. And that play is the one that again is primarily published as one text and generally (but not always) produced as one play. Millennium gives the false sense of being a standalone play, because of how the angel crashes through the ceiling, but it is really the midpoint of the story. Nothing is actually resolved from the beginning of Millennium, because the characters have five more acts to go before they reach their conclusion of their journeys as established in the first act. If you’re only asking Wikipedia, you’re only getting half the story. |
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