| The last great musical to open on Broadway | |
| Posted by: | JayBee 08:17 am EDT 03/13/14 |
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| With the opening of Rocky tonight and Bullets on its way, I was thinking of the last great musical that opened in NYC - and it just so happened to open this month 39 years ago - the original production of A Little Night Music. It was a perfect creative blending of every element of musical theater . A show for adults written by adults. Nothing better since then, unfortunately. Yes, A Chorus Line was later but it has a weakish score, and it doesn't stand up well today - as its revival will attest. The British invasion of the 1980s pop operas was all about special effects, but not much else. After that, what? Scores written by composers of jingles that wink at the audience because they know they're inferior and believe by mocking the genre that they can get away with a lousy show... Musicals whose pyrotechnics and screeching sopranos are suppose to spare us from the boredom of their ordinary scores and books... Cartoons regurgitated on stage... Rock musicals written by people who don't know how to tell a coherent story... Juke box musicals whose scores are clumsily shoehorned into a book show? Yes, A Little Night Music was the last great musical to open on Broadway. But, I guess, the search goes on. | |
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