What you wish you could change in Broadway Shows

Next to Normal- school and theater sceenery during the concert and high school sceens

Addams Family- Grandma's own song

Grinch- real whos NOT CARDBOARD FIGURES DURING SINGING SECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

West Side Story- No spanish whatsoever (i know they changed it)

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haha lol i agree

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there are jump ropes in born to boogie I saw the show in Sydney and in New York but do not remember any jump ropes! Maybe I am remembering the Sydney one.

"Grinch- real whos NOT CARDBOARD FIGURES DURING SINGING SECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

What do you mean? When I saw the show in 2007, I'm pretty sure there were people dressed as whos instead of cardboard figures.

BILLY ELLIOT - The dancing dresses, the STUPID bedroom tower, and the giant Maggie Thatcher puppet (these are people with low income; where did they get the money to craft a giant puppet?)

NEXT TO NORMAL - Gabe almost naked in "Just Another Day" (it's great to look at, but it serves zero purpose and it's the only time we see his character out of a direct connection with Diana so it makes even less sense)

SPRING AWAKENING [I know it's closed!] - The beating scene (needs some serious re-choreographing; it's just terrible)

SOUTH PACIFIC - Andrew Samonsky

GOD OF CARNAGE - The two plastic office chairs (these are upper class people and they really couldn't afford nicer chairs to compliment their couch?)

The ADDAMS FAMILY book and score

Jukebox musicals, and the like (period).

As far as BETM goes, I actually like the set (bedroom tower), the dancing dresses, and the jump roping is okay as long as they don't trip. If it goes smoothly it adds a lot.

In Wicked, during Wonderful, the Wizard should tap dance! It would add a lot.

Complimentary cough drops like in Carnegie Hall.

Well, while the following comments aren't necessarily of current Broadway shows, I would:

-Never allow that LuPone woman or Linda Woolverton and that heinous act she calls writing near or involved with a Broadway stage. Or just about any stage for that matter.

-Put Avenue Q back on Broadway.

-Get rid of those projections in Wicked. The show was fine the way it was in 2004. Stop trying to make it more extravagant than it already is. And put all the lines they cut back in.

-Although not currently on Broadway as of last week today; but the producers of Enron should've waited a few more years to put it on Broadway. And even when the time came, put it Off-Broadway, then let it transfer.

-Extend Fences!

-Fix the book for N2N. I'm sorry. But it sucks. Great score and cast, awful book.

And siding with Kalimba, get rid of the jukebox bullpoop (tee-hee). I don't MIND jukebox every once in a while, as long as the music is entirely relevant to the story- which there are plenty of shows where the story doesn't flow right with the music. Or better yet, just make the shows plays and use the music score as a sound track. Which is a bit amateurish, but if done tastefully I think could work.

And yes, aasjb4ever. Stunt casting is annoying- but hey! It's good every once in a while (Time Stands Still does have a pretty bitchin' cast, I must say).

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Updated On: 5/16/10 at 05:01 PM

in '06 (i think, well anyway it was the 1st year of the show) i saw the grinch in previews, and in some sections of songs the whos were figures singing, other scenes had real whos.

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haha just a couple years ago orchestra seat were just $100. But now you're talking $300!! The dollar always comes into play, and always progresses through the years!!! *sigh*

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It wasn't making money on Broadway and could significantly lower its operating costs by transferring off-Broadway. The grosses towards the end were pretty bad.