#1
Posted: 2/18/06 at 1:19am
I just saw the Broadway halftime show from the NBA All-Star Game of...what...1998?
I must say it was VERY thrilling and dramatic at first, but some of the numbers didn't fit nor belong, such as CATS' "Memory." The Phantom flying in, while it has nothing to do with the show, was very dramatic and made me go "wow! I want to see this show!" Same with Scarlet Pimpernel and Bring In Da Noise and some others.
To have a montage of Broadway shows in an arena with THOUSANDS in the audience? Priceless! I wasn't expecting the applause since it was a sports event, but then again it WAS in New York.
That said, it altogether was RIDICULOUS!! The applause was sometimes for the wrong reasons, for example the woman shimmying in Smokey Joe's Cafe. Broadway at a basketball game? Puh-lease!
Did it actually boost the Broadway box office?
I must say it was VERY thrilling and dramatic at first, but some of the numbers didn't fit nor belong, such as CATS' "Memory." The Phantom flying in, while it has nothing to do with the show, was very dramatic and made me go "wow! I want to see this show!" Same with Scarlet Pimpernel and Bring In Da Noise and some others.
To have a montage of Broadway shows in an arena with THOUSANDS in the audience? Priceless! I wasn't expecting the applause since it was a sports event, but then again it WAS in New York.
That said, it altogether was RIDICULOUS!! The applause was sometimes for the wrong reasons, for example the woman shimmying in Smokey Joe's Cafe. Broadway at a basketball game? Puh-lease!
Did it actually boost the Broadway box office?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
