Not to fret. I love that we all get along so well at HHW that we can see something, disagree about its merits or lack thereof, and continue to be such good and hearty friends.
DR MattH is speaking for himself. If JRand doesn't turn around and start appreciating Maureen Lippman's performance as Aunt Eller, I'm going to boo him every 72 hours until his karma ain't an integer!
Actually, whenever I read "DR MATTH" I think I'm reading Doctor Math and it kind of scares me.
A while back there was a group of singers who put on a concert of songs that were believed to have been performed on the
Titanic. They got the idea of turning their concert into a musical, by having someone write dialogue to go between the songs. Guess who got the job.
It meant creating characters for these individual performers because, since the cast existed before the idea for the show came about, the show had already been cast. Then, I hit upon a comic idea: that, at first, the singers on the
Titanic might not have taken the crash with the iceberg seriously. So, I had them improvise a dance, dubbed
The Titanic in which one traipses around as if walking on an increaasingly slanted floor, avoiding puddles.
They paid me for my work, but didn't go on to produce the show. I imagine this version would have been as different from Maury Yestin's show as Maury Yestin's
Phantom is different from Andrew Lloyd Webber's.
