Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Tony-Winning Utah Shakespeare Festival to Stage Great Expectations Musical
Playbill.com: "Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, which follows a young orphan named Pip on his journey to find his place in the world, will come to life in a new musical adaptation, which will play the Utah Shakespeare Festival this summer."
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I am intensely curious how Great Expectations could be condensed into a readily-watched piece of theatre, let alone turned into a musical. So much about the novel is in the description, the things completely devoid of any way to articulate through narration or cleverly inserted plot points, and I feel a lot of the majesty of Dickens' writing would be lost. I recently read this book, and it is just so dense with information that I cannot begin to imagine how they will explain the characters' backstories, especially Miss Havisham's which takes up a good chunk of the novel, and not make it incredibly dry.
Good luck to the festival for being so open to this new work, but I forsee lots of issues for those of us who have read and loved the novel in its original.
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