That the first show I bought tickets to in 2011, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, was going to stay open long enough for me to use the tickets...
I wish for Spidey to close and a new batch of original musicals to fill the soon to be empty theaters. That means no jukeboxes or musicals based on a well known movie/television show/book/comic book. Please give us a story we don't already know!
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
I love the amount of people on here who cherish an "original musical" that's not based on anything. Which make up about 10% of all Broadway musicals! Updated On: 12/30/10 at 08:47 PM
For How to Succeed to win best revival and anything other than Spider-Man to win best musical. Spider-Man had my full support for the longest time, and I still hope it turns out to be a great show, but I just don't have much faith in it anymore.
How can Esparza win a Tony for a show he's not in?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body