At 12:58 PM -0400 5/24/10, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 24 May 2010 at 12:51, John Howell wrote:
I take
"Oklahoma!" as the tipping point, even though "Showboat" had tended
that way earlier (and significantly with the help of Hammerstein).
Hmm. The Showboat issue is quite complicated. There exist about 5
distinct versions of the show. It was tinkered with quite extensively
in revivals and in the movie versions, and really think most of the
"innovations" are later tweaks to the original (at least, in
comparison to the original of Oklahoma).
Hmmm. We haven't done that one, so I haven't researched it, but I'm
not surprised. It was typical of the time. Same thing when we did
"Anything Goes," but you seldom have a choice of which version you
can rent. And most of the best songs in that show came into it in
later versions. The movie versions are ALWAYS too different to do
you any good.
John
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