Charley Kringas Inc said: "A Director said: "Charley Kringas Inc said:
On top of that, and blame for this is to be laid also on Lorenz and Hart, they wimp out on providing an actual philosophical explanation to why Franklin gets where he is. It's not a story about giving up on ideals, it's a story about manipulative wives. This is particularly true in the awful rewrite, where Franklin almost convinces himself to do the right thing, and then Gussie comes out and basically sings about how she's horny and they should go to the bedroom tobang and be rich. That's not a motive, that's a cop-out, and the fact that we're perpetually denied real access to Frank's psyche makes it an unsatisfying show.
Who are Lorenz and Hart? Merrily We Roll Along, the play, was written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It was their second show. The first scene is okay and it ends with bottle of iodine thrown in the face of a young woman. Nothing else in the play tops this. Overall, the play is so-so.
The main things the musical has in common with the play is the title and going backward in time. Sondheim, Furth and Prince madechanges, so they are to blame for the lack of explanation."
OMG I did the thing lmao. Yes, Kaufman and Hart is who I meant. The other big similarity between the play and the musical is that, in the play, the Frank equivalent also is seduced by a sexy rich woman, and the Charley equivalent ruins their friendship by doing a painting of them in which she’s an octopus or something like that."
If memory serves, the painting is of Frank as an octopus, and one tentacle might even be grabbing a cash register.
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