Big Hollywood: Obama has wrecked Broadway!!!

Hope it's OK to post this, but it's a Broadway discussion!
According to Big Hollywood:
"Since Obama and his crew came to power, the planned assault on the hearts and minds of the theatre-going public has been inescapable. Gone are the lighthearted musicals that were the staples of Broadway; enter the era of pandering to the politics of special interests."

I don't know where Obama found the time to wreck Broadway along with all the other things I'm sure this writer thinks he's wrecked. Article doesn't even make sense. On the one hand he says the golden age of musicals ended about the time Obama was born, nevertheless Obama is responsible for the lack of original feel-good musicals! And does the NEA have something to do with Broadway? Really stupid rant, which he hopes to turn into a book (probably timed for the election)
Big Hollywood: Political Correctness Is Destroying Broadway

HAHAHA. I'm sorry, this article was awful and fantastic at the same time.

So much ignorance!

Also, this - "A turgid rock musical about a mother with worsening bipolar disorder who talks to her dead son (he committed suicide) while ignoring her husband and daughter."

I can't.

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Updated On: 7/15/11 at 04:57 AM

Has he seen "Book of Mormon?" I don't think there's anything politically correct about that. Or for "The Producers" for that matter.

ah, the Bush, Clinton and Bush years:

Filled only with frothy, feel-good shows Les Miz, Miss Saigon, Passion, Parade, Grand Hotel, Falsettos, Blood Brothers, Titanic, Sunset Boulevard, Tommy, Caroline, or Change, The Life, Ragtime, The Dead, two Wild Parties, Jane Eyre, The Color Purple, Spring Awakening

and the Obama years:

A steady uninterrupted diet of dry, serious, foreboding works like Xanadu, Shrek, Rock of Ages, Sister Act, Book of Mormon (no comedy or silliness there, folks!), Priscilla, and revivals of Promises, Promises and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

What. The. F*CK????

Please, as if conservatives can't get their work seen anymore. Exhibit A: David Mamet, atill, rightfully, a powerful voice in the theater, although his political writings make me want to vomit.

All of the shows the "writer" sites as examples of their narrow agenda were long in development or even on stage before President Obama even started campaigning. Add to that errors that could have been fixed with a simple google search (saying the Golden Age ended in the early 60's, Billie Elliot, Gabe's death, all of the Mormons in Book are closeted). I have no problem reading opinions that are different than mine as long as they are well thought out and well researched (or in this case, researched at all). The fact that this moron thinks that dark/theme driven musicals are a new thing paired with pure lies, once again paints a scary picture of conservative America. I particularly take offense to him equating President Obama's election with the end of racism in America. Right, buddy. And homophobia ended with the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. In fact, I think racism is stronger than ever. So many of the attacks on Obama feel like veiled racism. And I wouldn't be shock if this is one of them.

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Updated On: 7/15/11 at 12:47 PM

I should check my address again. I can see the Guthrie from my house and I'm pretty sure I have never even been in Indianapolis.

I love how this article just brings bile to my throat. It takes a lot to do that.

A stupid, lazy article. "Book of Mormon" is politically correct? Idiocy. "Yank" hasn't opened on Broadway and the name of the show is BILLY Elliott not "Billie". This writer seems to be equating "politically correct" with anything that isn't anti-gay. The sad thing on the comments section as well is that it just gave a lot of people the leeway to post stupid homophobic and racist things.

Don't you just hate people sometimes?

I would guess very few of those people responding have ever been to b'way, or ever planned to see a show on b'way.

Oy.

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The musicals that he mentioned:

Billy Elliot premiered in London in 2005/2006 (not sure exactly) way before Obama was elected
Hair was written way back in 1969
An early version of Yank was produced in 2007
Memphis had its first productions in 2003/2004
The Scottsboro Boys started in 2002 and would have been staged during the Bush years had Fred Ebb not unfortunately passed away in 2004
The first draft of Next to Normal was written in 1998
Work on The Book of Mormon started in 2006

But, clearly, this is all Obama's fault.

Someone in Xenia is ecstatic!

Wait, did I read that article right (after he got so many things wrong? LOL!)

So Broadway is both becoming too PC, yet also is trying to push a political agenda that is leftist (but dumbed down)?

The hell?

And I love that the article started out mentioning two shows that can be taken to exemplify political change in leftist ways (surely "My Fair Lady" is a harbinger of women's rights, and "Oklahoma" by Rodgers & Hammerstein, was the first in a series of works to take a look at social issues of the day and comment upon them.).

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I'm angry that he not only told unassuming audiences that Gabe is dead, but that he KILLED himself. What a jerk this guy is.