i noticed this during the Tony’s tonight... what’s with revivals of classic plays having the author’s name listed before the title? it’s not like there are two different Iceman Comeths or Three Tall Womens or Carousels (or if there are... there shouldn’t be)
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
I think it’s become a Scott Rudin thing and seems to be up to the producers. Notice it wasn’t Tony Kushner’s Angels in America or Lerner and Lowe’s My Fair Lady.
It's all up to the authors families/estates. I understand it from a marketing standpoint, but it feels odd to treat it as the official title. (And it's definitely not just a Scott Rudin thing.)
kade.ivy said: "I think it’s become a Scott Rudin thing and seems to be up to the producers. Notice it wasn’t Tony Kushner’s Angels in America or Lerner and Lowe’s My Fair Lady."
It may not be announced as Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, but contractually Lincoln Center does have to include "Lerner and Loewe's" in all of their press and marketing materials for the show.
Did you know that every day Mexican gays cross our borders and unplug our brain-dead ladies?
I remember my jaw dropping this year when they announced the nominations alphabetically, and I thought that Carousel was shut out of Revival. ...Until it was Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel. (Well, Rodgers & Hammersteen’s Carousel on nomination day.)
I get upset with the changing of official titles of works ALL THE TIME. My most recent was when Once On This Island became Once On This Island: The Musical. There is no other version of Once On This Island than the musical. Maybe you need to add that for audiences nowadays, but it just made me sad. It never needed that designation before, why now?
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