| re: Peter Marks: As tourist-friendly musicals take over, Broadway no longer belongs to playwrights | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 07:56 am EST 12/28/17 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:51 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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| I did read the article, and even have a digital subscription to the WaPo. The issues are bigger. The mention of "Other Desert Cities" is almost ironic, since in the playwriting community -- which is large and regionally (and otherwise) diverse -- there's an ongoing conversation going on about how the "Other Desert Cities" and Durang's "Vanya, Masha..." have become the plays regional houses perform, not truly new work. (LORT houses still try to take credit for producing plays that have NYC's imprimatur, another but not unrelated topic; new plays are found, developed, nurtured, not secured via the rights post-B'way.) The article certainly re-mints the concern that NYC is no longer 1) the goal for ascendant playwrights, and 2) the tourism market is centered exclusively on musicals. But most playwrights didn't focus on B'way even back in the late 70s. The goal was generally the off-b'way producing companies, MTC and Playwrights or Circle Rep back in the day. B'way wasn't viewed as realistic, or necessarily even aesthetically compatible. (Sorry, but that does explain my cell phone styled post and the mention of "Forty Carats." But it really is a larger conversation. I'd go out a limb and say even on this board we discuss musicals 2 to 1 over plays. Musicals certainly generate longer threads. |
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