The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.
'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
The world loves the 1950s.
There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
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