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The show makes an interesting contrast with that other Puccini retread, Miss Saigon . The latter, a British musical, relocates Madame Butterfly to the most controversial conflict of our time, paints its story on a big, sweeping canvas and has gone on to play around the world; the other brings La Bohème home to Greenwich Village, and thus further reinforces the parochialism of the New York musical, as it shrivels away to its core audience.
These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."
Scattered about the surrounding hills is a profusion of windmill towers which, without their white canvas sails, look for all the world like ancient cannons.
Now we enter the huge athletic universe of canvas and rubber, with all its high-tech spinoffs and hangers-on.
One follows the arcs and arabesques across the canvas, but they don't lead the eye anywhere.