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re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals

Posted by: actor103 02:09 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals - ryhog 01:01 am EDT 08/15/14

The more spaces that are used up selling crap, means fewer spaces are available for the ambitious. Like I said, Broadway is not going to die. It is just going to become (using a "foodie" comparison here) a land of Mc Donalds and Burger Kings with no room for the Per Se's or Danielle's. Before you know it, the "art" looks like the outsider. If the Broadway market is populated by more "Beautiful's", "Rock of Ages'" and "Mama Mia's" than there is no space for the "Next To Normals." Thats the fear. And forget about the "Realistic Jonses" and Osage county kind of products. Broadway is just Vegas shows with a longer running time.

Look I know this an often repeated. So, I will drop it now. But, just sayin'...

Oh, and I love your sort of lyrical, "pick your own parallel." I do not think that sounds silly at all. Sorta brilliant, when you think about it.


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re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals

Posted by: ryhog 10:13 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals - actor103 02:09 am EDT 08/15/14

I never fret about real estate in New York (and that, at bottom, is what you're doing). It is an evolving thing. McDonalds is never going to eliminate haute cuisine, and Mamma Mia is never going to eliminate Book of Mormon. The best shows recently haven't been on Broadway-they have been on Lafayette. So what? We have trains and taxis. The thing to fret about is what is being created in musical theatre. The stuff that is supposed to be ambitious is inept and mediocre-stuff no one wants to buy. And so the void is filled by unambitious but sellable shows. That's nothing that you don't learn in econ 101. But you also learn what Kevin Costner taught us: "If you build it, they will come." The challenge is to nurture better product. Then everything else will take care of itself.


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re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals

Posted by: bwaydiva1 11:00 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals - ryhog 10:13 am EDT 08/15/14

Well one production from Lafayette is headed to Broadway-only time will tell what happens there.


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re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals

Posted by: bwaydiva1 08:15 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals - actor103 02:09 am EDT 08/15/14

Well Fun Home is coming for those of us who prefer the less showy or flashy. And The Visit is likely for the darker side of theater as well.

There should be room for both the sheer entertainment and the more serious minded. But when the sheer entertainment takes over it takes away from the more artistic shows.


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re: bring back the twin Howard Johnson's in Times Square

Posted by: SidL 05:31 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: FINDING NEVERLAND: this is why I hate so many Broadway musicals - actor103 02:09 am EDT 08/15/14

Lily Tomlin worked at one of them


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