What's Happening to GOOD Theater?- Page 2

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 12/22/04 at 4:49pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948 to William and Jean Lloyd Webber...

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 12/22/04 at 4:53pm

Sum,

That's just SO cold (and SO funny ......)

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 12/23/04 at 6:32pm

Margo dahling those are the characteristics I model myself after...

[maybethistime]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 1:32am

its being swallowed up by bad wannabe-book musicals like mamma mia, all shook up, lennin and all the other such fiascos

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 1:56am

After watching Braodway: The American Musical, I think we have reached a point in time that is a transition period, but also a time where people just want to escape from their daily life. They want musicals that seem to be more likely to pull them away from the real world and just plain entertain them. I think this fad will end at some point. We can predict all we want where Broadway is going but 20 years ago no one could have accurately predicted today's climate on Broadway. The same is true now. Everything goes through cycles. I am also one of the biggest proponents of going off Broadway and going to local theatre. Broadway is the most marketable theatre not necessarily the best. Occasionally those two coincide and it's magic when it does happen.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 2:12am

Good lord, I object to so many things in this thread it's hard to know where to start. At the beginning, I suppose.

"GOOD" theatre is an utterly subjective term. Is "good" theatre musicals that sell tickets? (By this standard, OH, CALCUTTA ranks as one of the best musicals ever). Is "good" theatre anything written by Steven Sondheim? Is "good" theatre regional theatre with hard working actors working for minimum wage, and sacrificing for their art?

It's also a very bad idea to judge a show that you haven't actually seen. It's an insanely dumb thing to judge a show that NOBODY has seen yet. (And what is "LENNIN", exactly? A musical about the demantling of Soviet statutes? Good grief).

There's an interesting discussion in this thread somewhere, and many of you have made interesting points. I am just horrified, as usual, at the barrage of blatant, uneducated critiques being aimed at various shows and the attempted use of this lack of information as an arguing point.

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 2:42am

2 words: off broadway