Annie Waking Up at the End of the Show - "It Was All a Dream"?- Page 2

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 11:10pm

That Goth person has long been known to make stuff up and present them as facts.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:41am

BTW, the Bogart NYU production of SOUTH PACIFIC was as a reaction to the then-current invasion of Granada, it was set in an army hospital for traumatized soldiers. As part of their "graduation ceremony" they had to play a part in SOUTH PACIFIC. The rest of the show was done as always. The Richard Rogers estate tried to shut it down, only to have someone--it may have been Mary Rogers--come see the show and love it.

I agree with Namo, theatre is not taxidermy.

[newintown]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 2:35pm

Raker, I saw Bogart's On The Town because a friend was in it. Trust me, it was set on a battleship. The idea was that they were performing the show to cheer up the crew before battle. The audience, however, had to figure all this out on their own, because there was nothing either in the text of the show or the program (as you have pointed out) to let them know.

[raker]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 6:14pm

OK, I'll take your word for it. It's been a long time. It went over my head. I remember in the 80s it was fashionable for avant garde directors to "reimagine" plays and do absurd things like stage The Sound of Music in an insane asylum, that kind of thing. I'm glad that's behind us. Making On the Town a story about entertaining sailors on a ship at sea, just before battle, with a show about sailors on leave is demented.

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 6:41pm

Are you kidding? Wait until two seasons from now, when David Lynch revives Pal Joey in purgatory.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 7:15am

Hell is listening to "Tomorrow" playing for eternity.