How Can Musical Theater Be Saved?

Didn't see this posted anywhere. Interested to hear what you guys think.

Scott Rudin, “There are a lot of stories that do not need to be musicalized. The great musicals had to be musicals; most of the musicals that get done now are not necessary. Not the way Clybourne Park is necessary ... Why would musical theater be the only culture that resists newness? It doesn’t make sense. Bands become successes on tumblr. Where’s the tumblr of musical theater? [The problem is] older people are willing to pay for it, and they’re the same audience that’s not going to want something new. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. I’d rather go see our future than most musicals. The theater is simply not democratized in any way, and other art forms are."
How Can Musical Theater Be Saved? Broadway Veterans Give Their Advice

The original article really was great!

"Overstuff our birds with feeling, with meaning. And let’s not get between ourselves and our madness—at least, not in the first draft. "

Was this article written in the 1860's? Or is it just repeating the same old crap written about Broadway a thousand times since then?

And can we write a law that any goofball who trots out the "Musicals MUST be original" has to list all the awesome "original" musicals they are talking about.