Do You Think Broadway Will Become Extinct?

So Broadway shows have only been around for what 90 years? Maybe a little less. Do you think someday Broadway will be extinct just like Vaudville?

Updated On: 2/22/04 at 01:42 PM

We can't predict the future. But I do think technology will eventually take over. Whether that's 30 years or 80 years, we can't tell.

God i hope not. We should all support Broadway so it lives on forever.

I just hope nothing happens to it while i am still around!

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Forever is a very long time. Do I think it will be around forever? No. For a long time? Yes, absolutely. But I do think it will change a lot; even in its short 90 years it has changed enormously.

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Updated On: 2/22/04 at 02:19 PM

Haven't ticket sales gone way down in the last ten years?? People are interested in so many other things nowadays, like sports, why, I don't know. I hope that talent and originality can make Broadway outlive so many other things in entertainment.... though it probably won't.......

nah! come on now.

There is one boy I know, and I'm sure this is the case with a lot of teenagers my age (15) who doesn't understand theatre. He always asks me how I can stand to sit in a theatre for 2 1/2- 3 hours watching people talking to each other onstage without "special effects." There will always be those people who are truly dedicated to Broadway and theatre- and I think those are the people who will keep Broadway alive. While I do believe it will change, I don't think it will disappear.

i hope not.

I think it'll be here for a very long time too come. Broadway has become too valuable of a financial asset to the city for it to go anywhere in the predictable future.

It is extinct already...

Name two Broadway cast albums (not soundtracks) to enter the top 20 of a Billboard chart in the last 10 years.

Name two songs from Broadway shows to go top 40 in the last 20 years (All I come up with is "Memory", "Don't Cry for Me" and "All that Jazz"..and two are from the film soundtracks, not the cast albums.)

The Tony’s Ratings have declined precipitously since 1979...

You may ask, well, what does radio, not to mention that “dreaded” MTV really have to do with BROADWAY…?

...We’ll it matters if an entire GENERATION has feed off those two media fixtures for 20 odd years and both outlets never mention Broadway as a viable entertainment medium, but actually, when it is mentioned , it’s as a source of derision..

People, when RENT failed to get anyone excited for very long..well…that was pretty much it…..

There will be successes and their will continue to be failures but it is doubtful that the original impact this place had on the United States never mind the world will ever be recaptured.

Perfect...

Let's hope that the most powerful entertainment medium for people from the ages of 10 to 26, continues to stay far away from Broadway...

Lets just continue to make it our little club ...We don't need that demographic...

We don't need the 20 million 18-21 years olds who don't know or care who Sutton Foster is.... never mind Carol Channing..

That's the attitude!! Isolationism!

In London?