Lavieboheme3090 said: "I hope that over the 2 months of previews that they smooth out a lot of the projections, because at the moment I found myself looking at the screens vs the actors"
I'm looking forward to this, however, I at "The Damned," "Network," and "All About Eve" the video projections overwhelmed the actors intentionally no matter at which point in the run one saw the show, so not sure that's going to change.
As for bringing in Trujillo who supposedly will restore the Robbins choreography, I'm disappointed. So much for Broadway taking risks. I think Robbins's choreography is genius but we've seen it already. Many times. Why not try something new, especially when it's being created by one of today's most respected dance innovators? Also, the only place we can truly see the Robbins choreography is in the Wise/Robbins movie or in video clips of the original production, otherwise what we're seeing is someone else's take on the Robbins, regardless of how faithful they try to be, set on dancers who never met JR. And if this production does turn out to be crap, well we'll always have the movie and yet another revival in a couple months.
"Don't really recall reading such "country/city of origin" in such detail before. Were people challenging this before? Were the producers expecting to be challenged?"
Listing country of origin and training is pretty standard in ballet and dance company bios.
Sister George
. Anyone read the one about how Cynthia Erivo shouldn't play Harriet Tubman because her ancestors weren't members of the same tribe as Tubman's ancestors? Ethnicity is a huge part of this show and unless they changed the text, I've no doubt there are several industry professionals who will be checking the ethnicity of each actor against the text.
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