I was interested enough watching it, and thought it was well done.
One thing stood out glaringly though... both the bitchy (truly irritating) critics at that table, and the documentary's entire "point" itself, seem to say that "rave reviews" and "a Tony win for Best Musical" are what it's all about for a musical. Without them, your show is dead.
...and they're completely wrong now. Wicked got neither, and is the biggest hit on Broadway in the past 10 years.
And they never bothered to correct themselves, or to point out that they were and are, now and forever, WRONG in saying you can't make it without critical praise and a Best Musical Tony win.
The truth? Broadway audiences care less and less each year about those bitchy, lousy critics lording over absolutely no one at their self-important table, and that ONE BIG TONY NIGHT that the documentary keeps leading us up to with great anticipation.
Average people generally don't CARE anymore about either.
And the documentary should have pointed that out, in the end.
It is kinda lame when the film's main point is undermined by truth.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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