| The Broadway lights-dimming has become preposterous. | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 04:03 pm EST 03/04/22 | |
| In reply to: Tony Walton Broadway lights dimming? - castro 10:36 am EST 03/04/22 | |
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| For millions of Americans who never saw a Broadway show, losing Oscar Hammerstein II was like losing Franklin D. Roosevelt. What began as a genuine outpouring of genuinely national grief over Hammerstein's passing in 1960, and was never initially contemplated as anything other than a one-time event, has been trivialized, formalized, and routinized over the decades into meaninglessness. It never should have been done more than once. It should be dropped. You are all free, all the time, to keep the memory of every Broadway player, from the biggest stars to the anonymous backstage and front-of-the-house support teams, burning bright in your hearts forever, whether the lights get dimmed for them or not. But this endless back-and-forth, every time someone dies, about who is or is not "worthy" of being anointed among the elite is unseemly, to say the least. |
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