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| re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 04:29 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions - Chromolume 12:02 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| In 50 years' time, I don't think anyone much except for theater specialists will recognize any of the names mentioned above--Herman's or any of the others--or the titles of most of their shows. Fifty years from now, it will be 2067, and nearly all the shows mentioned above will be at least 100 years old, if not 125. That's about the same distance away that we are now from Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, and Reginald DeKoven, and who today can so much as name even one of their shows? (Oh, I'm sure people on this board can, but "the man in the street"?) And when was the last time any of them was commercially revived? I agree with the OP that in the future Herman will be "relegated" to non-commercial productions, as an occasional historical curiosity, but I think just about everybody else--including Sondheim--is likely to be, too. In 2067, the writers of the next 50 years will be the ones who are all the rage, and considered immortal. |
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| re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions | |
| Posted by: gcarl44 03:13 pm EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions - keikekaze 04:29 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| Speaking of 50 years from now, while you may be correct in that Herman and his fellow American contemporaries and predecessors may be forgotten, which of this era's musicals (excluding Sondheim, perhaps) will be remembered or revived? I can envision none that will be seen in 50 years. Even huge critical and commercial hits like Dear Evan Hanson, I don't see being revived in 50 years. IMHO, I think that the shows mentioned (with the exception, perhaps of Show Boat and Porgy & Bess) are revived because of their tremendous entertainment value. They were written to entertain and not necessarily to deliver a message. And while Show Boat and Porgy & Bess had their serious intentions, they were both entertaining as well and musically superior. Musicals today, generally do not have that level of entertainment, and are (again with the exception of Sondheim) not at the levels of Porter, Kern, Gershwin, Herman, Rodgers & Hammerstein or Hart score. | |
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