The Next 50 Years of B'way — Page 3

Please. Sondheim has been among the most awarded, lionized, feted, anthologized, analyzed, honored, critiqued, and produced composers in American history and he lived to see it in his lifetime. Enough already.


Allison MacKenzie
Peyton Place, New Hampshire

i dont usually come onto this message board... but im going to be checking up on this one quite frequently.

you all were too too funny.

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2009: Dirty Dancing debuts on Broadway. It's a smash hit with critics, but audiences complain that Patrick Swayze isn't in it.

2010: The new movie version of A Chorus Line debuts to great reviews. It's directed & choreographed by Rob Marshall. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Sheila, Wayne Brady as Richie, & Britney Spears cameos as a reject dancer. It wins 10 Oscars and is tagged as the best movie musical ever made.

2012: Phantom reaches 10,000 performances and says it'll still be around for another 10,000.

2016: Disney overtakes Broadway, with 12 shows currently playing, Broadway is renamed Disneyway. It's current shows: Lion King, Tarzan, Mary Poppins, Little Mermaid, Mulan, Aladdin, Huntchback, Bambi, Finding Nemo, Snow White(play), Beauty & the Beast(revival), Aida(revival).

2021: The revival of A Chorus Line surpasses the original version. But is still 8,000 performances short of beating Phantom, which is still running.

2026: The jukebox musical of NSYNC debuts. It's a major flop and is considered the worst musical in 50 years.

2027: The jukebox musical about Britney Spears debuts. It's a major flop and is considered the worst musical since NSYNC.

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2020:The Light in the Piazza is revived staring Audra McDonald as Margaret Johnson and an unknown named Lenay Davis as Clara...It is a critical and financial success and goes on to win the Best Revival Tony (to redeem the best Musical Tony lost in 2005).

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I love this thread. It brings be joy when I am sad.

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2007 - At one performance of POTO, the chandelier starts falling.

2009 - ALW dies and the shows by him that deserved to get runs over here, or didn't do well over here, are revived.

2014 - The aforementioned chandelier that started in 2007 is still falling. Paris Hilton comes to Broadway to play Johanna in SWEENEY TODD and wears a new costume: A low cut, sparkly and high-hemmed skirt. With the thong showing.

2024 - WICKED starts playing matinees on all days, including Mondays as an addition to the night shows. It beats POTO as longest running within about 7 years afterward. Speaking of POTO, that chandelier that was falling in 2007 is still falling. It's about a quarter on it's way to the stage floor.

290555 (Yes, that year.) - That chandelier from 2007 is STILL falling. Betty Buckley snaps the wire and puts it out of it's misery for good.

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Updated On: 4/4/06 at 11:22 PM

2072: Ave. Q. is revived and lyrics are changed to display the way that the original writers feel about the current President; Mark Bush, W's great grandson, a Republican who goes to war with Iraq due to his idolization of his great grandfather.

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A drowsy-like show will appear in 80 years, commenting on today's theater.
Harry Potter- the musical will debut in London. it gets tomatoes (or whatever they use there) thrown at them.
Many fantasy novels will be musicals. Andrew lloyd Webber will be put to rest, or stabbed.
Rent will be on broadway still, so will phantom, and wicked, but anyone who was ever involved will be dead.
In regards to wicked, it will stay on broadway long enough for the new teens to be like "What's the Wizard of Oz?
And mama Mia will continue to stand, to tourist's delight.
the tonys will have to create an award category called "Best revival of a revival of a revivial"
A few new musicals will open, win tonys, some new musical mgiht be one of the best musicals ever.
LITP will close in about 5 years. Edit sorry, I meant they would revive it and it would close in 5 years
All disney musicals will still stay there,
And, terribly, some musicals will be made into REALITY TV SHOWS!
AH
THE HORROR!
SAVE US!

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Updated On: 6/2/06 at 10:34 PM

2800 - All live instruments in a pit is banned, and all we will be forced to hear is a synthesizer.

3500- I'll already be dead, so thank God I won't be there to see what happens to Broadway as we know it.

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2043 After dozens of revivals, someone finally figures out how to turn a profit on "Mack and Mabel."

2053 on the fiftieth anniversary of "Wicked" a small gathering of the surviving Idinites, former teenagers who worshipd a woman who had a role in the original production, gather in front of the Kraft Foods-Gershwin Theater to shout out "WICKED IS THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE WORLD AND IDINA ISSSSSS A GGGGGOOOOOOOODDDDDESSSSS" to the crowds who are entering the theater to see that evenings wrestling bouts.

Nobody has any idea what they are saying because it was all said in capital letters and spelled wrong.

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Oh, and The Producers closes in 2007 and Mame decides to give Broadway a try! Wins 2 Tonys including Best revival and Best Sets!

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2007: grey gardens closes in a week!

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2040 - Biggest stars on Broadway and Film:
Suri Cruise and Shiloh Pitt (Both grow in popularity and are named most beautiful by People Magazine)

Updated On: 6/28/06 at 03:38 PM