No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.
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And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.
Post-production is kind of the death of hope. The money has been spent. The grand ideas are either there or they're not there. So music oftentimes has to compensate if there are issues, or it has to stay out of the way if the movie is working really well.
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment.
In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.
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