BROADWAY 2012-13 SEASON. Hidden themes?

I notice a theme of uninteresting musicals. Does that count?

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If you look hard enough, you can always find stuff in common. It's not even all that difficult.

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I'm very excited for Drood.

Otherwise, I'm a little curious about Rebecca because I love the movie and the one song I have heard I liked quite a bit.

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Last year there was a religion thing going on with Godspell, Superstar, Leap of Faith, and another one I think.

What about shows whose titles are the main character's name?

Annie
Chaplin
Rebecca
Matilda

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Sorry if I'm hijacking, but I have some thoughts on this.

Remember last year, when a dubious columnist decided to notice the "trend" of eleven o'clock numbers featuring suddenly-appearing, palatably maternal, big-boned black ladies? In reality, that sorta subjugative trope has been around for a century. I think that it might be our perpetual cultural amnesia that allows us to see these tendencies as new. (I mean, think about the flashy way that most of our news is reported!) There are certain pop cultural interests that come and go, but the major cliches of Broadway have been pretty consistent. Personally, I wish that this weren't the case. For me? I don't see any big similarities across the board this season that aren't part of the normal Broadway margins that we have to live with as regular audience members.

But. That said, I do find it pretty interesting how many recent shows have been ostensibly faith-based, but quietly (yet pointedly) subversive. Book of Mormon and Sister Act are the most obvious examples (should I bother mentioning Leap of Faith?), but I think that this also extends to revivals. The short-lived Jesus Christ Superstar revival's most effective moments were chillingly dark and mortal invocations of familiar religious iconography. I think that it's fair to say that religious skepticism is one (glacially) changing aspect of American culture. People are tired of all forms of Christianity being used as knee-jerk political justifications, or as convenient badges of acceptability. And that fatigue is slowly appearing in our mainstream art. At least, it sure seems that way to me.

Elf and A Christmas Story are both about Christmas. Common theme. Yay. Bye.

You're an unpleasant person.

You're an unpleasant person.

Well sarcasm aside it IS a common theme.

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Doesn't everyone inevitably becomes unpleasant on here? If I say the new Cammie production of Lei Miss is a piece of sh*t, a whole lot of ya who watched it and bought it will find me most unpleasant. Musto will create an unpleasant category inspired by my and other posters' unpleasantness in his off-day columns which are every day.

If I announce that I am hungry for some pork loin, those of you who don't get out more won't know what Chorizo is and assume I wallow in beastiality raunch and lust, and thus, find me quite unpleasant.

Telling someone they're unpleasant is redundant!

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I'm looking forward to Annie as well. I feel like it's a show I've always known, even if the only song from it I know anything about is the ubiquitous Manana.

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jv92, have you ever seen Drood? It's a fantastic show that I think you'd like. And, of course, there's that fantastic cast!

I've created a poll (as I mentioned on another thread) of all the shows (musicals, plays, stand-up, concerts) set to open on Broadway before the end of December. The poll allows you to pick more than one show as what you're most looking forward to.
Poll: Which Broadway Fall 2012 Shows Are You Most Looking Forward To?