A librarian friend of mine saw the "new improved" PRGY AND BESS last night and just wrote me:
I don't ever want to see it again. It's horrible! Not the performance (which was, typical of today's direction, hyper-kinetic - the characters remade as lower but certainly middle class African Americans, and the revision made it seem like a recital of famous songs with most of the connective plot/character development removed) -