In a play in which morally acceptable and unacceptable stances are hopelessly intertwined and might turn an audience off, there are two things that will draw us to the play anyway: these two characters, Portia and Shylock. If they are right, the play will succeed, despite all its difficulties. They are right as can be in this staging.
Revivals pose a unique set of challenges to those who stage them, and a unique set of questions to be considered by a contemporary audience. But great shows get invited back.
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1930s,
1934,
1935,
1960s,
1962,
1968,
1970s,
1971,
A Little Night Music,
Aimee Semple McPherson,
Amazon,
Anything Goes,
Aquarius,
Bernadette Peters,
Broadway,
Buddy's Folly,
C.S. Lewis,
celebrity criminals,
chronological snobbery,
Cole Porter,
Company,
Could I Leave You?,
Draft,
Easy to Be Hard,
Eileen Rodgers,
Elain Page,
Florenz Ziegfeld,
Follies,
Gabriel Blow Your Horn,
Gerome Ragni,
ghosts,
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Guys and Dolls,
Hair,
hippies,
Howard Lindsay,
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Initials,
iTunes,
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James Rado,
Jan Maxwell,
Jeanne Aubert,
Joel Grey,
John Weidman,
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Let the Sun Shine In,
Losing My Mind,
Loveland,
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Merrily We Roll Along,
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Oscar Hammerstein II,
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pederasty,
problem comedies,
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revivals,
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Sexual Liberation,
shipwreck,
showgirls,
SMiles of a Summer Night,
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the Draft,
thrill of travel,
Timothy Crouse,
Vietnam War,
Where Do I Go,
William Shakespeare,
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Posted on February 1, 2012, 9:26 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
The Big Picture.
Imagine if we tried tactics akin to those of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act to force Asian electronic factories to adhere to U.S. standards of pay, safety, environmental responsibility and industrial hygiene.
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child labor,
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conflict diamond,
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content providers,
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gizmos,
iPads,
Ira Glass,
manufacturing,
maquiladoras,
Mexican border,
migrant farm workers,
Mike Daisey,
MTV Egypt,
PIPA,
pirate websites,
Protect Intellectual Property Act,
Shenzhen,
slave labor,
SOPA,
Stop Online Piracy Act,
Supplier Responsibility Progress Report,
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,
This American Life,
unions in China,
Uzbekistan,
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