MTV Video- Has Broadway Music caught up to your iPod?

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:04pm

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1587709&vid=233902

It's actually a pretty cool video, featuring Passing Strange and In The Heights.
I know that most of you, if not all have iPods loaded with showtunes, but I think that the people who don't are beginning to gain some respect for broadway.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:10pm

That makes me sad

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:17pm

I love that last Passing Strange clip.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:28pm

Very cool. As a girl who listens to less and less musical theatre ever day and more and more rap and hip-hop, I love seeing this music being part of Broadway.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:53pm

Don't get me wrong I really like In The Heights but, I don't want Broadway to become a giant rock concert. I think Broadway should just be it's own genre. Ethel must be rolling in her grave.

[Mojojo5]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 10:52pm

If Ethel were alive today, she probably would already have done covers of "Seasons of Love", "Defying Gravity", "Every Story Is a Love Story", and "Find Your Grail." La Merm was always one to try to keep up with the kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1Q-sG7qBU

Z.

[bwaychae5192]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 11:05pm

I feel like they're looking down on traditional fare with that. It makes me feel that my tastes are inferior to what other people my age consider "good theatre" (nothing against anyone involved with these shows).

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 11:09pm

I feel like they're looking down on traditional fare with that. It makes me feel that my tastes are inferior to what other people my age consider "good theatre" (nothing against anyone involved with these shows).
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[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 11:21pm

I agree.

[shh282]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 11:26pm

I think this is good exposure for broadway's 'new' generation of shows, which may also lead to good exposure for the 'old' generation of shows. maybe i'm wrong.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 11:33pm

Yeah until this NEW generation engulfs Broadway turning into the new fad until it passes and is left hey and dry. Then what we do.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 4:23am

You know it's okay to like GYPSY and SITPWG and also enjoy PASSING STRANGE and IN THE HEIGHTS.

I can't relate to the young kids these days, but I must accept that Broadway is a business.

They need musicals that will attract more and more viewers (and younger viewers - they will spend their parent's $$)

I might as well embrace it! You all should too. It's not a crime. It's just a part of social progression.

I have a lot of respect for Stew and Lin.

They're not afraid to break free of the Broadway boundaries in an effort to relate to a different group.... to a younger generation... to people who would usually never be caught dead in the theatre!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 4:31am

Man, I love Lin-Manuel Miranda.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 4:44am

What I love about Lin-Manuel Miranda is that he doesn't have the need to say how much he didn't like traditional Broadway musicals every other chance he gets (yes, Duncan Sheik, that was a jab at you). He actually acknowledges how much traditional Broadway influences his own writing.
And really, if everyone had been thinking about "traditional" Broadway genre, we wouldn't have COMPANY, CABARET, HAIR, A CHORUS LINE, PASSION, CAROLINE OR CHANGE, BRING IN THE NOISE/BRING IN THE FUNK, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, PROMISES PROMISES, DREAMGIRLS and a plethora of other musicals that incorporated different, new ideas/music/style, etc into the Broadway genre.
I mean, I do hate it when somebody says they like musicals and the list they give you is limited to RENT, WICKED, and THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, but some of my iPod playlists have "It Won't Be Long Now" and "96'000" from IN THE HEIGHTS demo, "Lot's Wife" from CAROLINE OR CHANGE, "Rose's Turn" from GYPSY, "Adelaide's Lament" from GUYS & DOLLS...I mean, Broadway is eclectic, fun, and should always be re-inventing itself.

Updated On: 5/22/08 at 04:44 AM

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 6:40am

Well the tie for my favorite musical is South Pacific and In The Heights. Like too darn hot said.