Two Postscripts 

Additional thoughts on previous postings.

     Snapshots

Was my depreciation of the music of Stephen Schwartz shared by the producers of Snapshots?  I note with interest that the music used to frame the audience’s arrival and played during the intermission (there must be a term for it) was the show music of Leonard Bernstein.  Schwartz’s tunes did not fare well by comparison.

     Subsequent Conversations (Neil Labute at Douglas College)

I was left puzzled by the choices made in relation to the set design for this evening of playlets.  All of them involved a cast of two or three actors (usually two) playing in a physically intimate environment (two of them set in the front seat of a car).

But the set itself was huge in relation to the needs of the material.  A large performing area – largely unused – with a number of levels which suggested no particular time or place.  It was the kind of general purpose set one might expect to find for an epic drama or Wagner opera.  Only a fraction of the available performing area was used for the playlets.

That said, the set would have been a great design for a different offering and was well-executed.  Since the main justification of the production itself was to provide the students with a showcase for their work this was simply to give the stagecraft students, as well as the actors, a chance to show their stuff, whatever the demands of the playlets might have been.