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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by:	ryhog 10:18 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to:	re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - Chromolume 01:09 am EDT 03/18/14

I think there are shows that originate from producers, from writers and from an odd assortment of others. I don't think that has changed. I do agree that "branding" (a form of formula) drives things in an unfavorable way and, of course, about the displacement of popular music. I think another way of viewing some of this is by comparing it to the studio model of movie making. A&F were notable for having been hired in that style for Ragtime, and these mega-shows with heavy studio backing really seem to be vestiges of that sort of thing to the extreme. Ironically, film has moved in the opposite direction.

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