Does it seem like there is a lack of New Musicals this season?

I was looking at the list of shows on Playbill.com and it looks like there are very few new musicals this year. There only seem to be four...

Memphis
The Addams Family
Fela!
Spiderman (If it ever happens)

Don't look for Catch Me If You Can and Minsky's to arrive on Broadway this season.

Million Dollar Quartet, though, is expected to open in the spring.

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Isn't Memphis the last new score of this calendar year?

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Again, both Catch Me and Minsky's are aiming for fall.

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I thought CMIYC was aiming for Spring.

Why is the leap from four musicals revivals to six considered so especially noteworthy?

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"Why is the leap from four musicals revivals to six considered so especially noteworthy?"

Because no a days they seem to be the only good ones...

Why is the leap from four musicals revivals to six considered so especially noteworthy?

I'm excited about having more revivals this season because it means that, hopefully, the four best will receive the Tony nominations for best revival. In the past few seasons, some poor productions (ex. Grease in 2008 ) have been nominated simply because the category had to be filled out. With 6+ musical revivals this season, the less than stellar productions can be rightfully left out.

"No one does anything knowing it will flop. Even people behind GLORY DAYS believed in what they were doing. Many people considered ACROSS THE UNIVERSE a big disappointment."

Sorry, I definitely did not word what I was trying to say right. I trying to say that Taymor would not do something that she had faith in.
And of course for every play, musical, or movie, there will be some people who are disappointed and some people who love it.

Finian's
Ragtime
ALNM
La Cage
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Birdie

Am I going crazy? What's the sixth? We're not counting White Christmas are we?

I hope they do a major overhaul on Catch Me if You Can. I think it's smart they're waiting (I assumed this would happen as O'Brien and Mitchell are wrapped up in Love Never Dies). The score is standout (as are the performances) but McNally's book rivals his book for The Rink as one of the worst I've witnessed.

^^^ Bingo.

This season's arrivals were the shows getting funded over the economic crisis of the last few years. For the decade before that... mediocre shows got funding all the time, but now a show really needs to come out of a first reading very strong to move forward. People who used to invest $250k sight unseen are now stretching to put in $100k and that's if they LOVE what they see. Unfortunately, there are very few shows in development and the number of new readings is way down. It's gonna take a few years to come back.

p.s. Harper... your name very much suits you. I looked up your contributions to this site and got just the 2 very negative posts with little insight to support either one (trashing an actresses performance without going into why it didn't work when those who disagreed with you presented lucid arguments and then claiming that the musical is more irrelevant now without supporting it). My guess is that if you take the time to go look back at any time including the "Golden Age" of Broadway, you'll see that even then they didn't produce more than a few interesting and original musicals a year. They just accumulate over time. I'm very happy to see shows like Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal, Drowsey Chaperone, Jersey Boys, Light in the Piazza, Ave Q, and In the Heights over the last few years.

Be snide if you want, but if you don't back up your points, you just become the cliche internet troll.

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Ragtime will make up for it!