#51
Posted: 4/4/13 at 8:32pm
I agree with Matt. I was shocked and thrilled that unconventional musicals I loved in recent years like the ones he mentioned--and add Once and American Idiot to that list--made it on Broadway at all. In the same way that people bemoan the glut of bad reality TV shows, at the same time, television has never had as many truly amazing programs as it does now.
True quality stuff does make it through. And for me, because I enjoyed the hell out of Newsies, some of it is actually courtesy of Disney. Nobody HAS to like Hardbody, but anybody who's complaining about the dearth of new original musicals should at least not take delight in its shortcomings.
If Motown brings audiences to Broadway for a joyful celebration of this music--and especially if some of them happen to be people that don't normally come--how is that a bad thing?
True quality stuff does make it through. And for me, because I enjoyed the hell out of Newsies, some of it is actually courtesy of Disney. Nobody HAS to like Hardbody, but anybody who's complaining about the dearth of new original musicals should at least not take delight in its shortcomings.
If Motown brings audiences to Broadway for a joyful celebration of this music--and especially if some of them happen to be people that don't normally come--how is that a bad thing?
