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re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal

Posted by:	AlanScott 05:14 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to:	Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - GrumpyMorningBoy 05:01 pm EST 11/23/14

"it was the one show in town where you really didn't have to understand the words to enjoy the show just as much as everyone else." That was definitely a factor. I think there were other shows during its run where you could say more or less the same thing. Phantom, for example. While knowledge of English is perhaps a bit more helpful there, still everyone more or less knows the story and it's about the music (even if some of us don't like it much) and the spectacle. The first show I can recall of which people said, "It's running a long time because you don't have to know English to enjoy it" was Dancin'. Then people also said that about 42nd Street. Perhaps someone should have done a show titled Dancin' Cats on 42nd Street.

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