It's a bafflingly negative piece for a year-end look back, and strikes me as as kind of poor form to write something like this while the industry is very publicly struggling once again.
Of all the things Green could've used his position to write about this year- issues of abuse and race in the industry, the resilience of the community, etc.- he chooses to rehash his pans of Company and Diana, hinged on an extremely flimsy premise of "too much production value is bad except when it's not." He gives Moulin Rouge's lavishness a pass because the show is thin. Uh, okay.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
