Word: blitzstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact. one of the major weaknesses of the current production is the attempt to modernize a piece which is already so applicable to the present. In Blitzstein's original. Mister. "Number-one-home-snatcher," builds a swimming pool, a park. and a library to justify some shady real estate dealings. In the Loeb production. the swimming pool and the park become a research hospital and a gymnasium. One feels insulted. It's like having the punch line of a joke explained...
...cradle will rock and hopefully the bough will break, explains Larry Foreman, a union organizer in the play. But Blitzstein never quite answers that question we've all been wondering about: how do we break the bough...
...newspapers and the universities and the arts need private money to sustain themselves and the church needs those contributions and the people who have the money are screwing those who don't and you're convinced. Now all you need is direction for the fight and Blitzstein doesn't provide that. He just makes you angry...
...Cradle Will Rock was a hard play to kill. The need still exists for people to wrest control of their lives from the governments and businesses and the men who pander themselves to money and power. This Saturday, the memory of men like Blitzstein will be honored. "One day when everybody gets together" says Larry Foreman in the final scene...
...current production's attempts at updating the play do at times make the comparisons seem a little forced, but Blitzstein's original is too strong for this to be a serious drawback...