Re: RAT The Sassies!!!!

[Cara Rosson <cgr9456@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>]

>Of the musicals of the Nineties, the only one that was compelling enough to
>lead me to see it three times was RAGTIME.  Not perfect, but a grand
>whirligig of a construction with facets that only begin to reveal themselves
>after repeated hearings -- always something new to discover in it.

>----------------------------------
>Jeffrey Sweet
>Resident Playwright, Victory Gardens Theatre
>Faculty, Actors Studio at the New School
>Council, the Dramatists Guild of America
>http://members.aol.com/DgSWEET/index.html

Notable tidbit about Ragtime - it was tweaked and tuned and shaped before
opening by focus groups and marketing surveys (ie.  what did you like about
this scene, that scene, etc).  Much like tv pilots.   What have we come
to...