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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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