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Should there be a Showboat revival anytime soon? |
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
But just think of the possibilites! The black characters can all play either the banjo or the harmonica, which would make some sort of brand new, exciting, ironic political statement. And really with all of those characters, the musical landscape is endless. I see Parthy with a kazoo, myself.
(OK, I'll go to my room...
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I wish there was somewhere to see colour reproductions of the Urban set--the photos in that Complete Show Boat book from the 70s are amazing. It's such a fascinating show, even just in regards to how many versions exist. I think Prince did a good job of studying the various texts and making a (to me) definitive modern mix of them--just when the show was strting to fall into many overly sentimental, corny versions (though I would like to see the full 80s Papermill version which I believe tried to go back to the original in some ways and was televised on Live from Lincoln Center--I've only seen the two youtube clips).
(OK, I'll go to my room...
) I wish there was somewhere to see colour reproductions of the Urban set--the photos in that Complete Show Boat book from the 70s are amazing. It's such a fascinating show, even just in regards to how many versions exist. I think Prince did a good job of studying the various texts and making a (to me) definitive modern mix of them--just when the show was strting to fall into many overly sentimental, corny versions (though I would like to see the full 80s Papermill version which I believe tried to go back to the original in some ways and was televised on Live from Lincoln Center--I've only seen the two youtube clips).
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
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Posted: 1/5/12 at 4:48pm