A collaboration between differnent performing arts groups in Wisconsin to stage Leonard Bernstein’s MASS was cancelled.
The main concern was the time and coordination needed to pull off a show with a pit orchestra, a Broadway-sized cast and ballet company, three choirs, a marching band and a rock band.
MASS has been performed only five times since its 1971 premiere, which was a performance to open the John F. Kenndy Center For The Performing Arts in Washington, DC. I’ve seen it on video, and it must be amazing to see it live.