distressing news

[David Borgmeyer]

Dear Colleagues,

I just have to wonder how many people have actually read Hugo's Les 
Miserables after seeing the ALW musical.  In fact, a couple of years ago a 
student told me she didn't need to read Hugo because she had already seen 
the musical "version."

Will an M&M opera put a few more students in our Russian classrooms?  Maybe, 
but I fear the violence likely to be done to Bulgakov's work in the process 
is probably not worth it.

DB

>From: Rebecca Jane Stanton <rjs19 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list              
><SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] distressing news
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:25:47 -0400
>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>in case anyone is interested in reading Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's [note 
>spelling] actual announcement, which sparked this impassioned discussion, 
>it can be found on his blog:
>http://www.andrewlloydwebber.co.uk/sections/news/newsdb.php?article=13&section=news
>
>I must admit I share Mr. Keenan's fear that the welcome publicity for 
>Bulgakov's novel may come at the price of a theatrical event too painful to 
>contemplate, but as long as Sir Andrew refrains from casting Sarah 
>Brightman as Margarita, the worst will not have come to pass.
>
>regards,
>RJS
>
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