As a resident of Antwerp and aficionado of old master paintings,  I was pleasantly surprised to see that you picked up the Rubens musical that can be visited today in our city. I haven't had the chance yet to see how Helene Fourment will sing out her love for Rubens, but what I do regret already is the fact that despite the enormous versatility of Rubens,  he is depicted once again as the star painter of bulging nudity. Maybe every spectator of this musical should also be obliged to watch Waldemar Januszcack's 2015 documentary on Rubens (An Extra Large Story) as a general introduction, in which he demonstrates that the oeuvre of Rubens concerns a lot more than meaty men and women. Otherwise modern fitness-minded audiences will keep associating Rubens with 'vast and grandiose canvases, stuffed with wobbly mounds of female flesh' as Janusczack puts it. Besides this, it is quite hilarious to see that this musical about a painter with probably the largest canvases of the entire Baroque period is performed in one of the tiniest theatres of the city...