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Dr_Rock 09:36 am UTC 12/05/08 |
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Do we actually know what was and what was not Crawford's fault? - Ali 01:31 am UTC 12/05/08 |
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The accent was all Crawford's doing. I believe he also insisted that no one else get the funny lines but him. Probably quite a bit of the other stuff too but maybe John Rando was responsible for some of that.
> I'm a bit of a novice here so, just as a quick survey,
> does anyone know who's idea any of the following were?
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> That whole first scene with the mushrooms
> (by the end of it I was hoping that some of them would
> turn out to be poisonous)
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> The dancing garlic
> (shudder)
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> The Italian accent
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> Madame von-Krolock
> (what the hell was that all about?!)
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> The bat
> (not necessarily a bad idea but very badly executed)
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> Various misguided attempts to add comic lines in places
> where the general tone of the thing is supposed to be
> genuine pathos, creating a sort of mixed up tapestry of
> emotion in which the audience have no idea whether they're
> supposed to be laughing or not. (This was probably the
> biggest problem I had with it).
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> You got the impression that every comic line that got
> improvised in rehersals (by a cast who'd read the thing
> forty times and had lost all sense of the emotion of it
> all), was somehow allowed to make it into the musical.
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> I'm genuinely interested to know, does anyone know exactly
> how much of this came from Crawford and how much was other
> people.
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> And I do agree with the point about the production team
> and especially the director having a responsibility to
> rein Crawford in. I still think he's a tw*t though.
>
> Ali
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