RE: RAT The Sassies!!!!

["Werner Trieschmann" <werner_trieschmann@adg.ardemgaz.com>]

Sure, nobody likes anything as powerful and broad as theater reduced to dry,
little lists that have more than a hint of authority. No way can they be
wholly accurate. 

But, you know, these kind of enterprises are fun and harmless if you don't let
it get under your skin. What's it gonna hurt.

I would have to agree with the Checkov nomination. Maybe THE THREE SISTERS.
I'd also put in a plug for OUR TOWN, which is truly a marvelous play and
remains so even after every high school has unwittingly reduced it to a
cliche.  

Werner T. (Chili, man)
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>From: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 1:46 PM
>Subject: Re: RAT The Sassies!!!!
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.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