What will Broadway be like 20 years from now?

i don't even know what polarized means. Shows how dumb I am......

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i see

i think i'm just having a dumb day. I have not been on the ball today

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I'm afraid it will be dominated by badly written shows with no artistic value starring untalented pop stars.
Oh, wait a minute, you said twenty years.

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Ir will be more expensive & therefore less available to the general public which is a shame

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I'm hoping that it will become more widely accepted the way movies are today, even though Live shows are more expensive.
Once upon a time seeing a Broadway show was a status thing. Now there are discounts and other things that make Broadway more available to everyone. I think in 20 years there's always a possibility that Broadway can be better then ever.

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Broadway used to be a place for creative, groundbreaking and innovative theatre, as many plays as musicals. It was a place that produced shows by Williams, Albee, Inge, Miller,Hecht, O'neil, Wilder, Kaufman and Hart. Now its a creative void, full of happy, non thinking musicals that are neither innovative or very creative. Where only revival plays have a chance of succeeding, because the majority of the broadway going public are too stupid to sit through a show where they might actually have to think.
If you want true theatre go off broadway, off off broadway or to regional theatres. Whatever happens 20 years from now, in the present Broadway is not the same as it was when it began, its a commercially driven, artistically void wasteland. A shadow of what it started out as.

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...and just in case:

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Seeing at the rate it's going now...I see movie stars replacing B-way stars. And I see Phantom of the Opera STILL running.

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Good point Mr Matt

The disney shows have kept many people on the payroll ( off & on stage ) & have revitalized Broadway bringing in a whole new audience. To those anti disneys out there, would you rather have empty theaters & out of work actors & musicians ? Take something for those turned up noses so they get back to normal

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Justin Timberlake IS PETER ALLEN in the 20 anniversary production of Boy From Oz!three weeks only at the wonderful new Starbucks Theatrical Center(formerly the Majestic Theatre) And they'll be doing DOTV at Encores!,which by then will be called McDonald's Encores!

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Similar thoughts as Miriam's. Additionally, I think the audience in 20 years will be a baramoter as to what will fly in film and on stage. So, all you bw.com younguns will have a direct impact on what is hot on Broadway in the year 2023.

Think about that real hard ...and save your money for the $120+ ticket prices ! Hoepfully, I'll be in a luxury nursing resort having people work for ME!


Pati b

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To whip out my crystal ball...

The declining Disney (a decline that has started, despite some visible successes) will have put a freeze on its theatrical enterprises after Tarzan flops and loses large heaps of money. Disney will slowly pull out, and as the appetite of the general public for escapism fades, so will much of corporate interest in shows. Broadway will decline sharply for a little while, at least, until the extortionist price of renting a theatre is driven down and shows can be produced at reasonable rates.

At some point, something really visionary will hit and forge a new wave of theatre; whether it will have happened by 2023 or not, well, no one can be sure. But it won't be the same old familiar stuff. You can only market fluff so long before the delivery system breaks down.

-Wayne