Re: Promising new musical closing

On 2/22/09 11:23 AM, Steve Newport wrote:
I tend to enjoy Chekhov revivals.

The point isn't Chekhov revivals, but the more than a century, now, of playwrights producing tenth-generation Chekhov Xeroxes, more than a human lifetime's worth of imitations of imitations of imitations of Tsarist bourgeois ennui, until one feels like Paquette in El Dorado.

And every freakin' time one closes, the members of the cast publicly mourn, and tell the world how /sensitive/ and /moving/ and /meaningful/ it was, as though the heavy coughing fits that started in the house fifteen minutes from the top were inaudible to them.

Now, I didn't see this particular show, and I may be guessing wrong. But the news story damn well displays all the usual symptoms.
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