Rebecca back on? — Page 2

Well, maybe if it was adjusted somewhat, it could work artistically. For example, I highly doubt a Broadway audience is going to take a period story with a pop score seriously. Those days are well and truly gone; if nothing else, the short-lived run of A Tale of Two Cities proved that. Re-orchestrate the score from, say, a Forties standpoint, and that might -- might -- help its chances.

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "Well, maybe if it was adjusted somewhat, it could work artistically. For example, I highly doubt a Broadway audience is going to take a period story with a pop score seriously. "

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God it must be nice to have inside knowledge in to this show becoming a flop. Sometimes I wonder if more people on this board just love the drama of failure rather than success.

songanddanceman2 said: "God it must be nice to have inside knowledge in to this show becoming a flop. Sometimes I wonder if more people on this board just love the drama of failure rather than success."

1. Who has said they have inside knowledge?

2. Can you give an example of someone on this board who prefers failure to success? There is, of course, a lot more failure in the theatre than there is success. That's true in all art forms, but failure is in high relief on Broadway because there are so few outlets. Most films, by contrast, fail quietly, because no one ever hears about them in the first place, very few (or no) theaters pick them up and they just become what used to be STV.

3. If you were going to pick one show story for its drama in this century, it would be Rebecca.

Its anachronistic score isn't the issue. Lots of things have anachronistic scores.

The issue is that this is a work in a style that is wildly out of vogue and has had no contemporary successes.

Updated On: 8/19/16 at 03:36 PM

theatregoer3 said: "They should re-write the book and make it a musical about the legal dramas surrounding this Broadway production. THAT I would want to see."



"Rebecca, Or The Making of the Musical Fiasco of 2012 and All That Followed"

Didn't this show have a million dollar advance? How would that make it a failure?

a million dollar advance is like one week of performances.

Guess we're not seeing REBECCA anytime soon!

https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/broadway-producer-ben-sprecher-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/

If his career wasn't dead before, it sure is now.

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "^ Even were that not the case, his rights to Rebecca lapsed ages ago."



Jeez, talk about completely missing the point!

Isn't there a difference between anachronistic and out-dated?

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "I got your point, I'm just saying if it was to come, it wouldn't have come from him anyway. Part of the point of the thread was whether or not the show would move forward."

Indeed. Isn't this another way of saying the current arrest and the horrendous charges deserve their own thread? Child pornography is a long way past inadequate capitalization of a show in my hierarchy of crimes.

For the record, Ben and I worked together and were good friends in the late 1970s. I sublet his apartment for the first six months I lived in NYC, even paying his bills (with his money) and balancing his checkbook while he was on the road with THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM. We drifted apart as our careers went in different directions, but I remain fond of him even though we haven't spoken for 40 years.

I defended him as a stand-up guy during the REBECCA scandal, and of course he is legally innocent of the current charges until proven guilty.

But I think I have to stop defending him now, even while hoping (probably in vain) that yesterday's arrest was some sort of misunderstanding.

Yesterday was a $hitty day!