i had planned to attend evita...we had a group of 7, but when we discovered your ridiculous political agenda, we decided to boycott...so unless you sold out on thursday night, you lost $140 of ticket sales. hope you'll reconsider your position in the future...if the usa were a dictatorship, as you imply w/ your posters, you wouldn't have been able to hang your antagonistic backdrops! hope i don't have to become a former patron. my group have been regulars, so it'll be your loss...
quote from judith newmark, who liked the production, ended her review with this: "The sides of the stage are hung with posters of more familiar political figures: Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, George W. Bush and Glenn Beck. It's too much. Miller's tough, deglamorized treatment of "Evita" shrewdly lays bare a cult of personality. That's plenty; why try to force it to a conclusion?"
So I replied...
Hi,
We did sell out Thursday night, but I have no idea what political agenda you're talking about... Who has said anything about the US becoming a dictatorship??? That is NOT implied by the photographs on our set (which you have not even seen!), and I find your ridiculous accusation extremely offensive.
Telling the story of the Perons in a well-known Broadway musical doesn't endorse their politics any more than producing the show Assassins endorses Presidential assassination...
You should see our show before you condemn it blindly. Yes, we have photos on the side of the set of several political figures, both liberal and conservative, who are both deeply loved and deeply hated by the public, just like Eva Peron was. It has nothing whatsoever to do with a dictatorship, but it does point up parallels in the angry, mindless, populist politics that is poisoning American political discourse these days -- and that has apparently fueled your attack on us.
You certainly don't have to see our show, but I do find it bizarre for you to condemn a show you haven't even seen... That's what dictators do...
Scott
I have a feeling this woman is one of those people who's just dying to be outraged by the world around her, seeing demons and enemies everywhere she looks, real or not. I guess if we want to do relevant, aggressive theatre, we're going to get someone's hackles up once in a while. I just wish the attacks would come after they see the show.
Whaddya wanna bet this woman watches Glenn Beck?
Long Live the Musical!
Scott
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