Re: RAT The Sassies!!!!

[ActorsGng1@aol.com]

I think you need twenty, thirty, forty years distance to see what our 
collective moral and aesthetic values are to see what the influence is, 
especially with something like theater.  Everyone not only has their 
individual experience, but they don't often even see the same art.  Everyone 
heard the same recording of "Hound Dog," but every city got its own 
production of "Sweeny Todd" (even the touring shows are not necessarily the 
same experience).  And in the 80's and 90's, with the demise of New York as 
the center of all things theater, it's even harder to tell what will have the 
most impact on us all.

It's all quite personal in the short run.  For me it's about what I saw that 
blew me away: the 70's - "The Wiz", the 80's - "Cloud Nine", "Greek," the 
90's - "Angels in America," some Swedish theater company's version of 
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane."...  And as I get older and work in theater 
it's often the work of my collegues and friends that moves me and inspires me 
the most.  

Lists bite.

Mark Seldis