Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...process, went a long way towards undoing the modernizing Richard Rodgers and friends had done twenty-five years earlier. With 1968's Zorba, Prince continued the device-in the form of a Greek chorus-and, this time, even fewer of the musical numbers were ones growing out of the script...
...completes this process of transforming the musical. This show has fourteen charaters and all but one of them also serve as nameless vocal commentators on the action. Very few scenes are broken up by characters bursting into song; all songs fall between scenes or, if they do interrupt the script, are sung by performers who are not in the scene which is being interrupted. The work of Rodgers and Hammerstein has been undone atlast. We are back in some sense where the musical started structurally-only the musical numbers are now not irrelevant to the show but complementary...
...latter two-thirds of Johnny Johnson, though, things pick up considerably. Paul Green's epic theatre script holds up far better than one would expect in the second act's cruelty-of-war sequences and in the final act, where the hero returns home to be placed in an asylum (disease: "peace monomania") and discovers that his girl has married the capitalist-pig-next-door. It is hard to imagine any anti-war theatre being effective anymore, but about ten minutes' worth of Johnny Johnson is chilling in this respect...
Segal, who co-authored the Yellow Submarine script and currently teaches Comparative Literature at Yale, expressed confusion at some of the public response to his novel. He said that readers have faulted him for having "no intellectual purpose" in Love Story...
...director's influence is sufficiently strong in the picture that the focus of Boys as a film is radically different from that of Boys as a play, despite the fact that the script remains virtually unchanged. On stage, the center of attention throughout was Michael, and since he is the least happy and most destructive of the group, he set the tone of evening. As a result, homosexual critics (and the Mattachine society) jumped on Crowley for playing up the self-hating homosexual at the expense of the happy, well-adjusted one. In the movie, the camera works to enlarge...