Why do u love broadway?

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 11/10/03 at 7:00pm

My friend knows that i am obsessed with broadway and anything that has to do with it. So she asked me, "Why do you like broadway?" At first i couldnt come up with a good answer because i think i like it all! But specifically, i think its the variety of talent, the things that go on backstage, how different people can play the same role and make it their own, and just the sights and sounds! Im not talkin about any specif show just broadway in gerneral. Soo can u answer the question? ~l8r~

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/10/03 at 7:31pm

I don't love Broadway. I love good theater. I worship great theater. Sometimes good theater actually manages to be performed on Broadway and every once in a blue moon, great theater is too. So much Broadway fare is such crap that it can be heartbreaking.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 11/10/03 at 8:52pm

interesting =D

[BillFinn]

Posted: 11/10/03 at 9:04pm

A community of people that get away with singing about porn and sex? How can you NOT love it!

[Cadriel]

Posted: 11/10/03 at 9:21pm

Why? Well, honestly, I have this weird belief in populist theatre, in the sense that theatre works can and ought to speak to people on their level instead of pandering to them or elevating themselves above the audiences. I admire a great many things about art theatre, and I enjoy pure-entertainment theatre from time to time, but I do think that there is an unacknowledged populist streak with regard to what works on Broadway, and I like that.

That, and the fact that Broadway is a showcase for some of the best acting and singing in the world.

Oh, and I find something infinitely attractive about New York's theatre district and its places. Particularly Shubert Alley, which is a sort of shrine for me.

-Wayne

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/10/03 at 9:33pm

I love Broadway for one reason and one reason only: the carpeting!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/10/03 at 9:35pm

See, this goes back to what I was saying. I like good carpeting. I love great carpeting. Unfortunately, there is a lot of bad carpeting on Broadway but people think it's great just because it's on Broadway. Which is heartbreaking.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/10/03 at 9:40pm

Now, I beg to differ. I've seen more great carpeting on Broadway than I've seen bad; although the stuff on the floor of the Palace really needs to be replaced PRONTO!

[ckeaton]

Posted: 11/11/03 at 2:30pm

Hello everybody...
My first post.. :)

I love theatre... Broadway theatre is arguably the grand-dad of them all...

Theatre takes us to a different place, its a wonderful thing. I'm not ashamed to say that a good curtain call will bring a tear to my eye just about any time.

[onceadancer2]

Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:12pm

Why does anyone love Broadway. Because it was the pinnacle of success (once!) in theatre history. It meant arrival, acceptance, money and fame: that your name would be known in New York as well as Kansas City. And it meant that you would attract other talent to write for you and display you to your best advantage. That Broadway does not exst anymore, except in history books and old cast albums. But once it was very palpable indeed!

Miriam

Updated On: 11/11/03 at 04:12 PM

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:52pm

3 words onceadancer2: deep and tru. =D

[HotTicket]

Posted: 11/11/03 at 7:41pm

findingnamo I love your posts.

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 11/11/03 at 7:53pm

hmm....so many reasons. It's hard to explain. There is a certain magic about the theatre that is indescribable.

[MusicalDirector109]

Posted: 11/11/03 at 9:14pm

I too WORSHIP GREAT THEATRE. I love Broadway, but I must confess that I was very dissapointed last weekend. I was in town over the weekend and saw four shows. The best STILL BEING "Cabaret"!!! I saw "Nine" and John Stamos IS NO Antonio and his vocals in "The Grand Canal" sequence were oh so weak. I loved him in "Cabaret" but Guido, I fear, is too much for him. Eartha Kitt, Marni Nixon and Rebecca Luker were GREAT!!Mary Stuart Masterson seems to be better than ever. We need some GREAT theatre back on Broadway!!!

[sheekala]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 10:59am

I love the alchemy that happens whenever you put a bunch of strangers in a room, combine that with a band of performers and a team of creative artists who all have a story to tell either through song or beautiful words and images,or sometimes hopefully all of those ingredients and then you dim the lights and see what happens....

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 11:06am

"I love the alchemy that happens whenever you put a bunch of strangers in a room, combine that with a band of performers and a team of creative artists who all have a story to tell either through song or beautiful words and images,or sometimes hopefully all of those ingredients and then you dim the lights and see what happens.... "

For a moment there I thought you were describing MTV's THE REAL WORLD.

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 11:10am

me luv boardway becuz Miss Jones brings us in to city on special buss to eat at hot dog place an look at king of lion.

[sheekala]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 11:10am

haha, this Season on Broadway is like The Real World! I vote Bobby Boland out of the house! And I can't live with TABOO another day!