US Theatre

The problems is that no producer is a risk taker these days what happened to producing musicals like A Chorus Line that are original . The Producers think that everything has to be popular very popular to bring the masses. I just wish that something more edgy or original and new song writers can make it to broadway there should be a foundation to help new writers break on to Broadway too bad the US government does not regards the arts as important as the UK and thats why arts is not so original in the USA. do we really need another war for oil rather than fund the arts and help the creators of musicals actually succeed rather than have producers take all the buck why isn't the government producing with a Lotto or tax to help new theatre come alive.

Odd indeed. Especially since that thread apparently was deleted. At a minimum, both posters went to the same school of (non) punctuation.

very true. majority of the new musicals i have seen have horrible storytelling. i just saw the national tour of shrek. the concept is good but the storytelling was awful and trite. and relied to heavily on the audience's memory of the movie.