Does 'A Classic' Automatically Equal Good? — Page 2

I don't think CATS and PHANTOM have yet to enter the pantheon--most of our experience of those shows are from the original productions, rather than years of many different interpretations and concepts--not that everything should be tinkered with a la Doyle, but with CATS and PHANTOM, we're really seeing one very long run of the same production--once more theatres begin to do it and we see what kind of legs (hee hee) it has past the original version, then we can start classic talk.

A classic doesn't mean you will like it, but it does imply a certain level of artistic merit and audience appeal.

Sorry you didn't like OUR TOWN, but that is likely more of a reflection of the production than the play--read it and then decide.

It's perfectly understandalbe that today's audiences, who adore SPRING AWAKENING and LEGALLY BLONDE, wouldn't be capable of appreciating even a good production of the classics

Or Moby-Dick. Some of that book is positively punishing.

"Classics"- Not automatically good.

Our Town- I've seen one good production. And it was by a director I know to be incompetent, so I think it was an accident.

Brigadoon- Just Stupid.