The singers need a strong presence throughout to take their own agency when it comes to the audience’s divided attentions. At its worst, the disconnect between the old libretto and the updating (the translations on the projected titles is also updated to better conform with the production) caused audience laughs in the wrong places.
A decrepit drive-in movie theater screens a 1947 noir spoof, “My Favorite Brunette,” for seemingly no other reason, possibly, than that Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour get locked up in a sanitarium. Stone is easily satisfied by his visual imagination. A video screen above Lizzie Clachan’s realistic set reveals live shots of the singers, sometimes close-ups of them onstage, sometimes in rooms or places not seen onstage. The action takes place on a revolving set, continually changing perspective.
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