I really would like to see a good production of Lady in the Dark, but feminists today would be screaming about the ending, I'm sure.
Actually, I don't see the problem, since she ends up deciding to make what's-hiz-name the
co-editor, an equal partnership. Only one line would need to be dropped: "And maybe some day I'll step aside and..."
On the other hand, even in its original incarnation the ending of
Applause turned off many women I knew at the time. Sure, "a woman is unfulfilled without a husband and a baby and a kitchen full of lasagne" worked in
All About Eve, but in a different era... I always thought the logical ending to
Applause was for Margot to take that part she had been offered as somebody's grandmother--finally coming to terms with her age and that she could still be a star without being the ingenue. Of course, "There's Something Better" would have to be rewritten.
Who am I, David Henry Hwang, all of a sudden, wanting to write revisals of everything?
And by the bye,
CONGRATULATIONS, MR. MARK BAKALOR AND WIFE ON YOUR NEW ARRIVAL!!!And let me add the news that our lovely niece Andrea and her partner Debby are the proud parents of a daughter Cody, who arrived last Sunday, just three days before my Joe and Andrea's common birthday. [Nothing common about it!] You remember, Andrea is the one who used to protest, "Uncle Joe, I am not a lesbian!"