They need to cut at least a half hour--maybe even 45 minutes--and focus more on the story they are trying to tell, rather than having the show be one long parade of epic theatre conceits. If they can achieve that (and I think they can), it could have a shot at a Best Musical nomination. I can't see it winning, though. Murphy and Cerveris will definitely be nominated, and David Pittu may have a shot. It will definitely be nominated for sets, lighting and costumes.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 4/15/07 at 08:38 PM
