Lane and Prince vs. Platt and Graham — Page 2

allofmylife, it seems as if you've never heard of song interpretation.

I think the composers of GUYS & DOLLS were intelligent enough to know such a thing exists, a concept you don't seem to be aware of.

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I'm not saying that Platt and Graham are perfect, but I don't see how you can say that they were horribly miscast when you haven't seen the show and are judging based solely on a "brief clip online."
I wasn't crazy about Platt as Nathan, but I did enjoy Lauren Graham's take on Adelaide. And I do think some of the show's problems stem from the direction and not the actors.

No, I don't direct any more. I produce. And I don't do musicals anymore, I do movies.

When I did do revial productions, I tried to be faithful to the original intentions of the creators of a show - not dogmatically rigid - but I knew that I was not the co-writer of the score, or the co-librettist, or the co-choreographer.

If someone went and added four new lines of lyrics to a Sondheim show - or even West Side Story, this site would be full of righteous indignation. Why should performers be given a pass? I just feel that Loesser knows best and I'll let him lead the way.

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I'm sure they would say the same about you, in any performance you were doing.....

Well, it was thirty six years ago and I doubt if it was the first of anything. After spending a great deal of time having a section of the Sharks' dialogue translated - twice to make sue of exactly what was being said, one of the actors said "Yeah, we did that in community theater in 1966. Crap.

And as for blaxx's comment, I don't direct anymore. I parlayed that into a successful career in another area of the entertainment business, so you've been spared having to suffer through my directorial whims.

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