[2040] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Taste?
wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 8 01:00:55 1991
some people only pay attention to the surface details of a show,
where money (and ingenuity) counts a lot. The fact that they have a real
theater (as opposed to 54-100) helps the "atmosphere" quite a bit.
I'll agree with you about the music; the schtick that the orchestra did
before each act was obvious (I've spent my time in orchestra pits, and I
*never* had a need to PROJECT my voice in performance :-) ) and got tiring
real fast.
I do beg to disagree with you on the issue of "reinterpreting" the play.
In this age of laser disks and videocasettes, if everyone did a production
as the original author intended, you might as well just stay home and watch
a professionally recorded version.
(Of course, I've had this sick idea recently of a production of Henry V
transmogrified into the Persian Gulf in 1991...)
