Warbler said:

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.

I gotta disagree. Unlike films, plays are living things. You can never recreate exactly a previous play. Different cast, different stage, different directors. .

I can't speak to "Guys and Dolls" but do you really want to see Hamlet the way Shakespeare intended, 4+ hours long? Or Julius Caesar in Elizabethean costume, which is how Shakespeare did it?