Broadway=Disney

[JPB]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:18pm

It seems like people only want multi million dollar fluff productions. Will Disney take over? 42nd Street will become a theme park if we are not careful.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:19pm

Become?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:21pm

It beats empty theaters & out of work actors

While I miss a lot of the old Times Square, some aspects I do not miss. If a show is entertaining, I do not care who produces it. Disney also has the resources to put on shows while old sources of funding for new shows may be drying up

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:24pm

Great point

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:32pm

So? If people want to see Disney that's up to them. I don't understand why people are so bitter about Disney on Broadway, they obviously have an audience (even if it's the tourists).

I do like my thought provoking shows but ocassionally I just want to be entertained, nothing wrong with that.

QM

[JPB]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:33pm

I love disney but my concern is that it is raising the $ bar and it will become very hard to get the smaller shows on bway.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:36pm

With the cost of ticket prices continuing to rise & the costs to produce doing likewise, smaller shows will either go off broadway or will not get produced. Welcome to the new Broadway. Sorry but the old broadway is dead & gone

[CJR]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:38pm

To shamelessly quote Mario Cantone:

"On the avenue I'm taking you to, Disney-Second Street!"

[CapnHook]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:38pm

Urinetown.

Avenue Q.

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:44pm

Exactly, CapnHook. There will always be smaller shows that can make it... they have things to offer that Disney can't and will therefore have an audience.

QM

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:59pm

"On the avenue I'm taking you to, Disney-Second Street!"
haha so true.
I do sometimes worry about the integrity of broadway, but when you think about it, broadway is just entertainment. It is nice (refreshing) to see the small musical and though provoking show (avenue q and Caroline) on broadway. However there is usually a smaller audience for the smaller shows and that leads to them closing.

[pab]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 11:26pm

Are there more Disney shows playing other than "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King"? I ask this question because of the 41 shows either playing or coming to Broadway, only 2 are from Disney. There are 54 Off-Broadway shows playing, or about to be playing, and none of them are Disney so counting both Broadway and Off-Broadway we are talking about 95 shows and if the above are indeed the only two, what's the big deal?

[CJR]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 11:29pm

Well my joke, I blatantly stole from Mario, and it's in reference to the fact that when Disney bought the New Amsterdam and 42nd was completely revamped it was kinda like a 'takeover.' Though I have to admit having a cleaner 42nd street is fabulous

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 10/29/04 at 11:31pm

This is not new. We all know it's the MTV generation and the hsows will change as the audiences change and there's nothing you can do about it.

[Speed]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 3:19am

In TEN years of producing for Broadway, Disney has only been able to get THREE PRODUCTIONS up on their feet. One of them has closed. Several other ideas have been stalled or canceled.

I'm not sure how TWO SHOWS (one of which is in a lovely NEW THEATER that they renovated for Broadway, the other was downsized) constitutus a take over.

[TheaterGeek91]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 10:28am

As long as they're shows, and they aren't the worst show in the whole world, who cares? Those shows are helping to keep Broadway alive in the younger generation. Soon, the younger generation will be old. And they will be the ones producing the shows. They have to get hooked somehow.

[Sant]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 10:31am

If Disney manages to produce musicals like AIDA (= which are not stage versions of their films) then fine, but turning their blockbuster movies into stage shows is just lack of ideas and creativity. Making money with the same story over and over and over again.

[saddle shoe side kick]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 10:36am

I personally have loved all 3 Disney shows. I love other shows too, though. If people enjoy the shows, let them come. Beauty and the Beast introduced me to Broadway. I see it introducing so many other little children every time I go.

That's my opinion.

[scottwalker]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 10:47am

Could not have said it better Saddle Shoe.The people who are always against "Disney" just do not like Disney...and no matter what they ever do,they will find fault with it.I to love broadway because I went to see Beauty and the Beast 10 years ago with my daughters.We all fell in love with Broadway...and have been going ever since.Thankyou Disney. When I think of all the JOY that we have gotten from Broadway and that if it had not been for Beauty and the Beast...WOW!!! it would have been pretty different in our lives.Parents will keep bringing their children to see these shows and introducing them to Broadway...That is Disney...Parents keep introducing their children to the "classics" whether that be...movies...or now Broadway Musicals.I`m all for it.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 10:58am

For the record, I think there's a Tarzan musical coming soon to a B'way theatre near you!

[Craig]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 10:59am

"but turning their blockbuster movies into stage shows is just lack of ideas and creativity. Making money with the same story over and over and over again. "

Condemning Disney for that (especially since they've only mounted 2 adaptation thus far) is a bit silly. Stories will always get told and retold across the mediums. The important thing isn't the source but the quality of the work. Some of our best theater has come from previous material - film or otherwise.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 11:01am

very true Craig.




Who gives a damn where it comes from as long it is a good show???? Updated On: 10/30/04 at 11:01 AM

[scottwalker]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 11:01am

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 1:29pm

Ergh. Disney. I'll say this- not introduced to the stage musical by them. That was the job of my Titanic (crappy show if you ask me) obsessed history teacher.

[moonys_autumn]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 1:36pm

I personally can't wait for The Little Mermaid to get on it's feet... er, fins? :)