Since they’re still in previews, they continue to tweak things. Last I heard, they’re trying to go back to the original choreography. We’ll see how that works. As it is, I haven’t heard good things about it (and I sooo want to see it).
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If one wanted to see a production where they changed up some things and did non-Jerome Robbins choreography, one can Google and find any community theatre or high school doing it. And for $15 instead of $150.
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And it would probably be a great production. No one expects them to be doing a revival or getting things even close to the original production. In fact, I did see a great community theatre production of it.
I get bringing a show back to Broadway and changing some things, even as a revival. Les Mis shortened up the production when it came back. They shortened it some more for the movie. (Although they could have gotten rid of Russell Crowe too.
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) When Sunset Boulevard came over from London, Patty Lupone was fired and replaced with Glenn Close who won the Tony, and by all accounts, is much pleasanter to work with.
But,
this show, WSS, coming back to Broadway - where Jerome Robbins WON the Tony Award for this show, WHY of all things, change THAT???
This production now sounds like a farce. One can't "bring back the original choreography," after one had already had a totally different concept and hired dancers who probably excel at the different
style of choreography that he envisioned, but maybe NOT excellent at Jerome Robbins style. Sure they could "ape" the moves & choreography. But, if Robbins-style dancing isn't in their soul and their expertise, as some other Broadway gypsies, who spend day after day, in dance classes, still, honing different dance styles and Robbins is one they LOVE, these dancers are not going to have the same energy, precision and execution.
I saw part of a production of the Nutcracker on PBS-TV last month. They also totally updated the Nutcracker. Instead of doing Tchaikovsky's songs to traditional ballet, they totally changed it to a hip-hop version. It was really interesting, inventive and modern. It was performed at the NJ Performing Arts Center, and I think they made sure to advertise it as a hip-hop version, so people would be well warned ahead of time, if they had wanted to see the ballet version.
I can't imagine being in previews and finding out the hip-hop version isn't working or isn't well received and trying the change the choreography back to ballet with the accomplished hip-hop dancers, who aren't good at ballet.
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