Warbler said:
bkev said:
Last performance of Hamlet today. I'm gonna miss the show, I had a blast being Bill Murray. Also, setting the play in the twenties and making it take place in a movie studio rather than a kingdom made it infinitely more interesting - plus, nontraditional casting = lesbian action.
no offense intended, but I am not exactly crazy about the reinventing of old plays. I believe plays should be performed exactly as originally intended. This also goes for the all the Broadway revivals that change the original script and/or other things. For instance: I was horrified to find out that they redid the script for Guys and Dolls and got rid of the all the Runyon style dialogue. It just isn't the say without the Runyonese. Do it the way it was originally done. Let modern audience see the plays/musicals the way the original audience did. Hamlet was just fine the way Shakespeare wrote it, why change? Again, no offense to bkev is intended.
Dunno, I thought Don Giovanni in the Ghetto was actually pretty interesting. I saw a modern version of Mefistofele that was pretty cool as well.