Broadway’s Musical Revivals: A Step Forward, Not Back
Any time that an audience steps into a theater, they are expected to “suspend their disbelief”. This tenant, one of the cornerstones that theater is built on, asks audiences to leave the standards of the outside world behind, stepping into the world of the production where it is perfectly acceptable for those on stage to break into song and dance. Due to this factor, musicals may lack a feel of realism. Events in musicals occur for a specific reason; moving the plot forward to a resolution th...
