from Monday at 6 to Wednesday---with the exception of the TEAM party, all non stop work. So what is there to report? Nothing much.
As I sit in the Lincoln Center library a gentleman is at the nearby tables---from what I can glean from
the conversation, he was an associate of the late Hal Prince, the library has an exhibition dedicated to him in its large exhibition center on the first floor. He is speaking about Prince's production of Candide, the Leonard Bernstein---Richard Wilbur musical that opened in 56 and closed soon afterwards, but that Prince revived or actually recreated successfully in 74 in Brooklyn (yes, there was a Brooklyn in 74) and which later moved to the Broadway theater in 75, and ran for quite a while.
The original production took the story seriously, this revised version saw the musical as a kind of hippie carnival---the floor of the Broadway theater, where the audience normally sat was used as the playing area--with the audience on all sides. It was a very spirited and inventive affair, even if it made
the hero's journey somewhat superficial--how I loved listening to the overture, when I saw it. Since then, every director seems to have wanted to get his(her) hands on it and revise it with their own vision---sort of like Merrily We Role Along---every"creative person" or entity seems to want a piece of it. I still have to find out who this gentleman talking is, perhaps I know of his work.
Again, some options for the evening, assuming that I am not too "bushed" Will report soon.
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