| re: I stayed but the guy sitting next to me left | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 02:22 pm EST 11/03/24 | |
| In reply to: I stayed but the guy sitting next to me left - BroadwayTonyJ 02:07 pm EST 11/03/24 | |
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| Mary's productions seem to polarize audiences (they did when she was a grad student at Northwestern--I saw her multi-media production of the Odyssey in one of the black boxes--the Wallis, I think--and found it intriguing), especially her operas. My brother-in-law, who has had season tickets at the DC Opera for decades, loathes all her work. I am not enough of an opera queen to have much of an opinion on them. I will say that, even at Lookingglass, I found some quite wonderful and others (The Secret in the Wings) left me cold. But that may be the sign of an innovative artist. Galati, one of her mentors, seemed to me more consistent in the quality of his productions, but even he had his failures (The Pirate Queen, Seussical, which, to be fair, morphed into something he did not want and which he left or was removed from out of town, depending on which version you've been told--ironically, what he envisioned was something closer to the chamber piece that gets done nationally at schools these days). I don't care for some of Mary's "revisions" (such as resetting the time period of "Wonderful Town"), but her work is rarely boring--that was true of Galati's productions, too. | |
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