The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:11pm
Another great article from Michael Feingold that's sort of a companion piece to his "Are We Living In A Golden Age of Theatre"? article.
Yes, he touches on Hunter Foster's Facebook campaign, but ultimately that's not what it's about.
EDIT: Lizzy Curry has got it below.
#2The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:14pmActual link: http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-06-22/theater/response-to-tony-awards-shows-business-is-not-business-as-usual/
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:14pmEDIT...the ORIGINAL link doesn't work. Lizzie's does.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:16pmOoops! Thanks for the save, Lizzie!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:21pmI saw your thread title and I knew who it was going to link to! Great article. It captures the queasy feeling I get when people around here talk about how "we all love Broadway" and crap like that.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:35pm
My favorite quote:
"The big question is what our theater can do in the face of such intense mass-market pressure. Corporations run the world; we can't pretend they don't. Through the mass media, they also run the popular mind, to the ongoing consternation of individualists like you and me. Ours is a small, embattled group, with few allies, and it, too, feels mass-marketing's tug: As Facebook has taught me, a disheartening number of theater folk share the tourist audience's preoccupation with mass culture, to the point where I sometimes feel like the hero of Ionesco's Rhinoceros, watching his friends turn into stampeding animals."
#6The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Posted: 6/23/10 at 8:33pmGood article.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#7The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual
Posted: 6/23/10 at 9:55pm
How does a man so shockingly ignorant land a job writing for a real live actual weekly paper? Why doesn't he just print up a bunch of posters that say "I like good stuff, YOU like crap" and plaster them all over the theater district?
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