Putting the author’s name before classic plays and musicals

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Putting the author’s name before classic plays and musicals

Posted: 6/10/18 at 11:50pm

i noticed this during the Tony’s tonight... what’s with revivals of classic plays having the author’s name listed before the title? it’s not like there are two different Iceman Comeths or Three Tall Womens or Carousels (or if there are... there shouldn’t be)

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Posted: 6/10/18 at 11:59pm

I think it’s become a Scott Rudin thing and seems to be up to the producers. Notice it wasn’t Tony Kushner’s Angels in America or Lerner and Lowe’s My Fair Lady.

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Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:06am

It's all up to the authors families/estates. I understand it from a marketing standpoint, but it feels odd to treat it as the official title. (And it's definitely not just a Scott Rudin thing.)

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Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:52am

kade.ivy said: "I think it’s become a Scott Rudin thing and seems to be up to the producers. Notice it wasn’t Tony Kushner’s Angels in America or Lerner and Lowe’s My Fair Lady."

It may not be announced as Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, but contractually Lincoln Center does have to include "Lerner and Loewe's" in all of their press and marketing materials for the show.

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Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:40am

I'm actually okay depending on the work is known to the theatre community

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Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:49am

I remember my jaw dropping this year when they announced the nominations alphabetically, and I thought that Carousel was shut out of Revival. ...Until it was Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel. (Well, Rodgers & Hammersteen’s Carousel on nomination day.)

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Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:53am

Just think of the marquee when they revive Spongebob

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Posted: 6/11/18 at 2:31pm

I get upset with the changing of official titles of works ALL THE TIME. My most recent was when Once On This Island became Once On This Island: The Musical. There is no other version of Once On This Island than the musical. Maybe you need to add that for audiences nowadays, but it just made me sad. It never needed that designation before, why now?

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