Director vs. text, round 2; Robert Falls and Chris Jones, Stephen Sondheim and the New York Times

WBEZ: When last Sunday's New York Times described with sympathy director Diane Paulus's radical approach to Porgy & Bess. the story provoked an episode of high dudgeon from Stephen Sondheim, who argued that the changes proposed would create not the Gershwins' Porgy & Bess but Ms. Paulus's. Mr. Sondheim's objection, he emphasized, was not to the as-yet-unseen production but to the director's attitude (as he understood it) toward both text and audience.