https://www.broadwayworld.com/l.cfm?id=50336 So, a 50-year-old musical with a 100-year-old story can STILL bring in the moolah and still has a grand audience. THAT tells you something.
(Sorry, just felt like I needed to let out a crow!)
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Updated On: 11/15/04 at 01:10 PM