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re: It Shoulda Been

Posted by:	garyd 10:14 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to:	It Shoulda Been - Ann 09:45 pm EDT 05/07/15

Good for you. The show is funny and sweet. It is not witty, clever, cynical, , thought provoking, or ground-breaking musical theatre. With the exception, maybe, of "Fun Home" and "The Visit" nothing else in the genre met those parameters this season either. Perhaps the capitalization money might have been better spent on something more "important"or commercially viable but it ain't our money. Broadway has seen much worse and will, no doubt, see much, much worse. I guess it is probably a bit of a vanity project but, if so, how often does vanity, by any other name, smell so sweet? On the other hand…there is an abundance of exquisite theater out there that deserves audience attention and funding.

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