People have said that, and I think perhaps it would have been the case. On the other hand, it had the biggest advance sale in Broadway history before it opened, which it would not have had it it hadn't been Rodgers and Hammerstein. So perhaps the reviews would not have been better, and the critics might have said it was imitation R and H, and it would have closed a lot sooner than it did.
I think perhaps a different director would have helped. As had happened other times, Hammerstein sort of took over. |
