| re: Peter Marks: As tourist-friendly musicals take over, Broadway no longer belongs to playwrights | |
| Posted by: BrianJ 06:59 am EST 12/28/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Peter Marks: As tourist-friendly musicals take over, Broadway no longer belongs to playwrights - MockingbirdGirl 01:28 am EST 12/28/17 | |
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| Really trying to remember what thriving scene of long-running plays was happening in the late '80s/early '90s before this acceleration he cites happened? Also confused about why corporations like Disney vying for theatres has anything to do with it; am I stupid for not remembering many straight plays playing theatres like the Palace, New Amsterdam, and Minskoff (that Disney shows have been in)? Or is the idea that, if it weren't for Disney, things like The Book of Mormon could be playing the Minskoff and therefore the Eugene O'Neill would be free for long-running hit plays? But I may be all in a muddle because I could swear that by 1987 I was already extremely convinced that musicals could far outlive plays as moneymaking ventures, but Marks contends that Les Miz and Phantom proved that - so I guess in '86 his jury was still out when he was debating the profit potential of Cats vs. I'm Not Rappaport? | |
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