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Whats happening to Broadway

Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:15am

Just when I thought there was one place there would be no reality TV it has happened. I can not believe that there is going to be a tv show looking for the new leads of Grease. I am so sick of this type of television. I really thought that Broadway would be the one place we would never see it. I have many friends who are members of equity and who have worked really hard to get to Broadway. Why now must we start looking for performers in other places. Also I am so tired of shows casting big time celebrities in parts they are not right for just to sell a ticket. When will the unknown finally get a chance to prove themself. I would love to see a show done on Broadway that is totally orginal and is cast with total unknown people, will someone please do this.

And finally I am tired of audience members who are just rude during a show. I just got in from seeing the wonderful Producers and had a couple next to me who talked during the whole first act even when i told them to please be quiet. And please why cant people please turn their cell phones off for two hours. I am just ranting but I fell when I am spending a hundred dollars ona ticket I want to hear the show and not the woman next to me talking about her date last night.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:24am

Ranting is fun :) Yesterday, I was talking on my cell phone, and just snapped (because I saw the Halie Duff add for Hairspray on a bus). Took me a while that that was what made me do it, but it was that through and through.

What is happening to the world!!! AHH!

I'll go to sleep... soon.

re: Whats happening to Broadway

Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:26am

Even though your post is on topic,

you might consider this handy dandy Off Topic Board thread:

For those who feel the need to share all of their banal details

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:30am

"I would love to see a show done on Broadway that is totally orginal and is cast with total unknown people, will someone please do this."

The Drowsy Chaperone is totally original, with a cast of unknowns (well, unknown to people outside of the theatre community).

"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D

Updated On: 8/10/06 at 02:30 AM

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:32am

nomdeplum, I love you.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:32am

Amen, sista'z.

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-Kad

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:33am

Gino, I love YOU!

re: Whats happening to Broadway

Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:34am

"nomdeplum"

I have a new nickname.

I like it.

re: Whats happening to Broadway

Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:38am

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:41am

C'est moi!

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:43am

The name is pretty great... but
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is the best plums picture. It just is.

#12

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:43am

I really thought that Broadway would be the one place we would never see it. I have many friends who are members of equity and who have worked really hard to get to Broadway.

You never heard about the reality show that was supposed to chronicle auditions for the Vegas Phantom? (It never aired, BTW.)

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:45am

I'll take them all! They match my fishy fins!

Somehow this thread has become all about me!

nomdeplum is what's happening to Broadway!

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:47am

Plum-y.. you're not what's happening to Broadway, you ARE Broadway!
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Equals

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:47am

Why do people keep complaining about there not being enough original musicals? a true list of original musicals on Broadway dating back to the 1920's, or even before that, would not be exceptionally long...

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:49am

If there must be a y in there, let's make it plummy.

I even remember the apostrophes in my "what's," I tell ya!

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:53am

Tired... too tired to even correct my grammar... which isn't spectacular in the first place. I did not pay attention in any of my English classes.... ever.

But you are plummy.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:55am

Sank you bebe.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 9:28am

"Just when I thought there was one place there would be no reality TV it has happened."

It happened years ago! I guess no one remembers the "FAME" reality show, where the winner starred in Fame on 42nd Street. Not to mention the Phantom Vegas one (thanks for reminding us Lizzie). It sucks, but it's happening.

"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:42am

JoJo, what also pisses me off is when people who have been here for about a year still don't know to use the search thread.

And I'm sick of people complaining about lack of originality in shows. Today, whether you want to admit it or not, theater is a business that is more about attracting a crowd to make money. And the big moneymakers tend to be in the commercialized shows such as Wicked, Beauty and the Beast, and the Lion King. And right now Drowsy Chaperone is making a lot of money, but pretty soon (and I really hate to say this considering I'm going to see the show and I love the cast recording), crowds are going to get tired of it and it will close in a year or two.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

Updated On: 8/10/06 at 10:42 AM

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:07am

Plums rule.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:34am

This isn't a question/issue that somebody asks ONCE on a thread from 3 years ago, and then we tuck it neatly away for years satisfied that we all have the answers now and can move on with our lives.

It's a VALID question/issue that bears repeating, and often. Yes, it's an OLD question. People have been heralding the death of Broadway since the early 20th century. And they've never stopped since. It stems from a yearning of something more... something better than what we currently have.

If everyone with a passion for Broadway is complacent with the way things are now, we will never advance to "the next level" (whatever that may be). We have to question, judge, scrutinize, complain and argue. Audiences, producers, writers, directors, creatives, and performers alike. Figure out what's lacking, what isn't working anymore, and what can be made better.

Discussing the current state of Broadway (from all perspectives) will never be an OLD question.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:37am

True.

The cell phone and rude audience rants, though, have been done so many times on here that they are passe.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:38am

I'm sorry I should've been more specific. I understand that this is a question constantly brought up by Broadway folk. I was aiming that comment more towards the "rude audience" part of the post.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:38am

With regards to the Drowsy statement. I think part of what is at the core pf broadways issues IS the fact that many shows run for so long. I think that, as in the Golden Age, the most artistic success can be achieved when shows come in and out in 6 months to 2 years. It's sad if you love a show, but it's better for the art. Now realistically, this can't happen now because 1) Theatre is not as prominent in Pop Culture as it was, and 2) most shows running costs are now through the roof because of the 'spectacle' factor. I think something's gotta give.

"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

Updated On: 8/10/06 at 11:38 AM

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