Re: Lifehouse or Lamehouse

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>Pete's big thing is the ideas, of course, and sketchy plots are fairly 
>characteristic of writers who deal in layered
>concepts.  Fine for rock opera, but a little difficult for theater or film.

Here's another interesting question.  Would Lifehouse the play have been 
better done if Pete wrote it all himself?  Or is the density his fault?

Something interesting happened with the script on the Quad tour.  They 
apparently took it out on the road to tinker with the theater idea, and as 
they went along the script got simpler.  At the Hyde Park and MSG shows, I 
thought it was too wordy for the audience to really capture.  Later on they 
replaced the live narrator with a film, and I read at least one review that 
called the film "heavy-handed," but I thought the script was good--stripped 
down to about what they needed for the rock opera.

Any Broadway fans here?  Would the MSG script have been more appropriate for 
a musical?


keets


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