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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by:	garyd 09:48 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to:	re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - Ann 09:14 pm EDT 03/17/14

There are examples on both sides of this argument. Decent, even great, iconic, musical theatre has some basic, if not total, basis in film. "Purlie", "Promises, Promises', " A Little Night Music", "Sweet Charity", "Nine" and many others. And, as has been noted, there also exists an extensive list of dreck. As for spectacle, it has also been around forever. (think Ziegfield) While it seldom appeals to me, there is a place for it to exist. "Sweeney Todd", "Follies", and certainly POTO, all have elements of spectacle. I make the argument that in these three examples the spectacle elements serve the story and are not incorporated for simple entertainment value but maybe I am rationalizing. Though I find real pleasure in some productions I have witnessed of both Todd and Follies minus the original spectacle elements.

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