I would agree with you 100% DR TCB if I had not once seen Hamlet dressed in black leather hotpants spinning on a wheel yelling "To be or not to be...."
Now I did not say that I cheered at each reinvention of Shakespeare (
having personally endured Christopher Walken's gold lame Hamlet), but rather the critics seem to cheer. Some of these attempts work better than others. As George would agree, the rock 'n roll
Twelfth Night is a wonderful show. Some others I have been involved with,
The Tempest set in the Louisiana bayou, just don't seem to work at all. At the same time, nobody is going to complain that the choreography in a new production of
Romeo and Juliet is wrong, because it isn't Bill Shakespeare's original design. So why should every new
Fiddler have to pay hommage to Mr. Robbins?