Plannietink08 said: " I just didn’t realise the Von Trapps weren’t happy with the musical because they do so much promotion for it. I know one of Maria’s granddaughters actually played her in a production!"
I think the family has made its peace with the film. However, in the 60s and 70s Maria von Trapp usually made slighting references to the film, (perhaps colored by the fact that she did not financially benefit from it).
Plannietink08 said: "Interesting idea. The issue is that The Sound of Music is a true story, the characters are real people who’s children are still alive today so I’m not sure how well it would go down."
Actually, the von Trapps were critical of SOM for straying so far from the real life events and character, they might prefer a darker version that more clearly demonstrates the danger the family was in and the bravery of their actions.
It breaks my heart, but a theater I work at frequently has this problem. The show is sold out, but there are a number of empty seats due to no-shows.
And legally you are restricted from selling a seat that is already sold.
In the old days, before online sales, small theaters took reservations rather than sales. A reservation could be released if they were a no show. But if payment has been made there are restrictions.
I think characters in most plays speak in idioms, which they sometimes botch, mix and recycle. I am trying to think of a play in which that does NOT happen.
Audiences respond in the here and now. They are not actors who do research and put on attitudes from the past. They are not scholars studying a work for historical insight. That is always the problem in reviving classics--you have to figure out how to translate the message in a bottle sent from a long way away.
That said, even in the time it was written, Carousel had issues that had to be finessed. If you read the great new biography of R&H, Something Wonderful, you see the lar
JSousa said: "Why is that in Broadway theaters, even at intermision, your not aloud to use your cell phone? Not even in the lobby. I was politly asked to step outside the theater becouse I was in the lobby calling my mom to tell her how awsome act one was. lol. And they only told me that cellphone use is prohibited in all areas of the thearer."
Lobbies are crowded and it is rude to make other people listen to your phone conversation. It is weird to force people t
Seperite said: "Is there a reason that people go apopleptic when white actors depict characters of color, but when a story about white men and their effort to forge a new nation is set to rap by a cast of almost no white people, it is celebrated?
The irony of progressive thinking is that while it gives lip-service to the notion of eliminating racism and prejudice, it is progressives who are constantly and breathlessly keeping count of how many people from what race are rep
Seeing The King and I as "problematic" is not a recent thing. This has been noted for decades.
Reviving any play from the 50s is difficult since that era view of things is further from how we see things today than prior and later decades. This does not mean that we should not produce them, but we need to be aware that when you get it wrong the audience loses sympathy for the characters.
The LCT revival showed that this work is still viable because it did not ig
Wayman_Wong said: "''Autocratic king who forces his subjects to kowtow to him, complete subjugation of women, slavery''
Couldn't this phrase also apply to numerous characters in the Bible? There's slavery and polygamy in the Good Book, too, and neither practice is condemned in the Bible. For instance, Abraham, Jacob and David had multiple wives. Solomon had 700 wives & 300 concubines. And yet those people are rarely called ''barbaric.
yfs said: "C I believe you are mistaking a bold but foolish and sophomoric experiment fora revelatory conceptual discovery. Annie simply doesn't say what Dehnert wanted it to say, and so both came off looking bad."
Did you see it early or late in the run? I saw it the first week and I am shocked that you could say this--so maybe the show changed?
It was a surprisingly emotional production when I saw it. Annie's unquenchable optimism seemed almo
