If only. Audiences were turned off by the subject matter in 1971; imagine how they'd react in the #MeToo, cancel culture era. This show has about as much chance of being revived than a minstrel show. Individual songs will be performed, at least, which is better than nothing.
@@hanschristianbrando5588 i think it could be received favourably by a modern audience with a good director. the problem is not the subject matter itself but the handling. i would also say one of the major problems for this musical is that one of actresses sounds like a child and children singing is just one of the worst sounds known to man, which is a problem because it's somewhat inherent to the subject matter and if you age dolores up then you run into the problem of changing the meaning of the source material which has been a problem for the other adaptations of the source material. but i think a fair amount of the reason people were turned off in 1971 is because half the songs are really good but the other half run the spectrum from OK to grating. it seems silly to attribute metoo as the thing that would kill this considering lolita is a story where the moral message is essentially "child sex abuse = bad"
Adaptations of "Lolita" with the exception of Kubrick's movie have been crass. Listen to the lead in to this song, it's nothing like anything from the novel. In fact, the pitch of this guy's voice is hard on the ears.
@@Zzzk23 It had the novel’s wicked humor, James Mason was the Humbert from the novel, as was Peter Seller’s Quilty. The last remake was just a “ pity the poor pedophile” movie with pretty crude sex scenes and shots of Lolita’s panties.
