"The rear orchestra is only partial view if a show is badly directed and designed."
"It is important to remember that Rodgers was designed for great viewing for dance pieces, where you are not looking to the heights of the stage, but looking at dancers and choreography at stage level."
Like I said, designed for the vaudeville era and not modern Broadway. There are more shows being created these days that WON'T fit the Richard Rodgers than ones that will.
And with all the off-Broadway and out of town transfers, not all shows have the time or money to completely redesign and redirect a show to fit in the one musical house that was available that April. It's just unfortunate that every season, producers and creatives are forced work around the handicap of the older theatres when trying to put on a new show.
Don't get me started on the boxes full of light and sound equipment. I don't care how pretty the proscenium is when it's blocked by those eyesores.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
