How successful do you have to be?
After an extraordinarily successful 2002-03 season with their two hit biopics, MET looked ready to execute one of their three-show seasons without canceling the most intriguing, risky, and usually third entry on the calendar. Nope! It’s more one-person shows on Golda Meir and Hank Williams! Nothing wrong with that!
But in art, doesn’t success mean you get to at least dabble in the stuff you really want to do? And I can’t believe AD David Fishelson, whose passion is inventive Dostoyevsky adaptations, wouldn’t like to do those stagings of Dreyer and Resnais films his website has promised in the past. Then again, maybe he’s filling the coffers with more daring things in view. Robert Rodriguez had to make three Spy Kids movies before Once Upon a Time in Mexico. So here’s my vote that, once Golda’s Balcony strikes the mother lode on Broadway and Lost Highway has paid for itself nine times over, Fishelson gets down to business and gives Off-Broadway a welcome, post-recession dose of artistic boldness. Bring on Ordet, Dave. We’ll support it.
Posted by Scott Reynolds at September 19, 2003 8:31 PM
