If that's so, why didn't they do it? The fact of the matter is that someone on the team didn't want Polanski involved in this one, or John Caird and Jim Steinman wouldn't have been announced as co-directors from the production reading onward. Jim wanted to put more of a stamp on this one, and wound up with less of one. Serves him right. You don't mess with a working product.
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> You could have Polanski involved, Cornelius Baltus or no
> Cornelius Baltus. You could have him set up a webcam and
> direct the entire production from a giant cinema screen.
> You could have one of his assistants direct from his
> notes. It wasn't a compulsory option to replace him with
> Jim Steinman and John Caird, Barry Keating or John Rando.
> Speaking of Keating, WHAT WAS THE STORY THERE.
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> > You're putting a lot of assumption in there. This is
> > assuming that the team was already in place for later
> > productions. The feeling I have personally is that the
> > team was put together as a result of DOTV to make sure
> > such didn't happen again, which I think is why we never
> > heard of this team until Poland and Budapest (and I think
> > Japan).
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> > > "Dance Of The Vampires" in The West End would have been a
> > > full faithful English translation with most of the German
> > > production design in tact and Cornelius Baltus directing,
> > > representing Roman Polanski.
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