Jane Eyre as a Chamber Musical

Posted today. Any one else like the sound of it?

Side note, I'd love for them to change the ending like Jasper Fforde did in his book "The Eyre Affair."

(POSSIBLE SPOILER: Basically Rochester ends up blinded and maimed, his wife falls from the roof, the house burns to the ground, but he and Jane a reunited and married in the end)

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I'm a big fan of this show and say leave it be. This isn't really being done for the benefit of the piece but to make it more financially feasible for regional theatres. There's a BIG difference.
Broadway Blog: The Mic Debate (Back to Before?)

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husk_charmer: Umm, how is that changing the ending? That's what happens in the book.

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husk charmer: I LOVE THOSE BOOKS!!!!

have you read the new one? it just came out!

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Sorry for the confusion. I always link to my blog. I won't do it now because I don't want to be confusing.

By the way, I just started SHIRLEY by Bronte. Not far enough into it to say too much, but I loved JANE EYRE.

I was in the first High School production of Jane Eyre (I know, insane for a high school, right) and that was just after it was released by MTI. We used a relatively simple set design that relied heavliy on lighting as well as the male chorus to create the MANY locales of the play. It worked rather well in my opinion, and as I remember, we even used the full orchestration. If a high school can do it, I say a regional theatre can do it. I love the way the show reads in the current version, and I only hope that it isn't turned into an intermissionless mess. But Paul Gordon is a smart man.
I am glad the peice is getting attetion again.