The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
Easily the best show on my last trip - which also included the remarkable Oedipus and Macbeth. When this inevitably makes it to Broadway, Lithgow is all but guaranteed the Tony.
Hm, true. Thénardier usually requires a classist Cockney accent... can John Lithgow do that? Probably.
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Seeing as I'm here... is The Witches antisemitic or not? I remember mentioning this when The Witches musical was first announced, but generally people seemed to disagree with me. Maybe I am misremembering. Does this play deal with The Witches specifically?
I personally don't think The Witches is antisemitic, per se, but many people see within it antisemitic tropes (as well as misogynistic tropes). Dahl's own explicitly antisemitic comments have certainly colored how people view his books.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."