How Can Musical Theater Be Saved?
How Can Musical Theater Be Saved?
#1How Can Musical Theater Be Saved?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 8:47am
Didn't see this posted anywhere. Interested to hear what you guys think.
Scott Rudin, “There are a lot of stories that do not need to be musicalized. The great musicals had to be musicals; most of the musicals that get done now are not necessary. Not the way Clybourne Park is necessary ... Why would musical theater be the only culture that resists newness? It doesn’t make sense. Bands become successes on tumblr. Where’s the tumblr of musical theater? [The problem is] older people are willing to pay for it, and they’re the same audience that’s not going to want something new. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. I’d rather go see our future than most musicals. The theater is simply not democratized in any way, and other art forms are."
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#2How Can Musical Theater Be Saved?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 11:42am
Here is the original article that the Vulture piece is a continuation of. It's also a pretty interesting read.
http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/broadway-songwriting-2012-5/
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#2How Can Musical Theater Be Saved?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 12:17pm
The original article really was great!
"Overstuff our birds with feeling, with meaning. And let’s not get between ourselves and our madness—at least, not in the first draft. "
#3How Can Musical Theater Be Saved?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 12:38pm
I don't know that it needs 'saving'... But it sure could use some ORIGINAL ideas... Meaning ORIGINAL as in NOT based on source material that has not been done before.
And I enjoed the articles 
Thank you for sharing!
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#4How Can Musical Theater Be Saved?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 12:54pm
Was this article written in the 1860's? Or is it just repeating the same old crap written about Broadway a thousand times since then?
And can we write a law that any goofball who trots out the "Musicals MUST be original" has to list all the awesome "original" musicals they are talking about.
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