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re: The last great musical to open on Broadway

Posted by:	Chazwaza 11:46 am EDT 03/14/14
In reply to:	re: The last great musical to open on Broadway - JayBee 11:45 am EDT 03/13/14

I'm glad you consider Sweeney Todd to be "terrific", but MANY people (myself included, very much so) would disagree with you about the original production (to be totally fair I wasn't alive to see it live but I got permission to view a legally recorded (and not distributed) video of the original production at the Library of the Performing Arts in NYC, the video of the tour with Lansbury and Hearn, which is available commercials and legally, about a hundred times, i've seen productions which recreated the original staging and sets (ex: NY Opera with Elaine Paige directed by Hal Prince based on his original production), and I've read extensively about the production). But as Michael said, if you're talking about the last great musical, a musical lives beyond it's original production as a piece of material. The Music Man is a show that very few people alive who are younger than 65 saw in it's original production and remember it, and yet it remembered by all as a great musical, which is evident in the writing. As is the case with Sweeney, no matter how you felt about the original production. It's lucky for you that you were alive and in nyc to see all the potential shows that could be the last great musical (I'd be curious to know if you actually saw most of the shows you dismiss for the last 39 years in their original nyc productions)... but not everyone was, so that cannot be the way the lasting quality or "greatness" of a show is judged.

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