What really terrible interpretations of beloved shows have you encountered?
(Curiosity, not challenge: I have occasionally seen productions of musicals that did not thrill me, but outside of opera never anything that ran so counter to the text I thought it had missed the point with maps and flashlights. Within opera, oh, man. You can have all the giant puppets you want in the first act of Les contes d'Hoffmann, but there is no need for them all over the rest of the show.)
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What really terrible interpretations of beloved shows have you encountered?
(Curiosity, not challenge: I have occasionally seen productions of musicals that did not thrill me, but outside of opera never anything that ran so counter to the text I thought it had missed the point with maps and flashlights. Within opera, oh, man. You can have all the giant puppets you want in the first act of Les contes d'Hoffmann, but there is no need for them all over the rest of the show.)