| re: Swept Away coming to Broadway is a mistake | |
| Posted by: adeliciaboy 11:50 pm EDT 05/18/24 | |
| In reply to: Swept Away coming to Broadway is a mistake - Mmac72 09:24 pm EDT 05/18/24 | |
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| Welcome to the new post-pandemic Broadway Mmac72. I have not seen "Swept Away" but I have no doubt your concerns are entirely valid. It is becoming increasingly clear that quality is the last thing on the minds of producers still plotting to open shows on Broadway. And if you pay close attention to what is happening on the road I think the reason that is the case is that whether or not a show receives critical acclaim or makes money on Broadway, the producers can still label it a" Broadway"show and sell it on the road to tens of thousands of hapless "Broadway in Wherever USA" subscribers. It's a ploy that is working big time now, as folks in the boonies who don't go to NYC still want a taste of what Broadway has to offer. But as more and more of these subscribers come to realize how crazy bad many of these shows with Broadway cred are nowadays , the ploy may start to backfire big time. But for now, the producers show no signs of trying to do better with what they bring to Broadway. On a different but related topic, just wait til audiences in New York and surrounding suburbs get a look at the vulgar, campy and emotionally bereft "Death Becomes Her," now having its pre-Broadway run in Chicago- a city that has become notorious as a birthplace of a number of high-profile musical turkeys that have quickly died a miserable death on the Great White Way. Nonetheless several of those shows have hit the road and cleaned up in towns with sizable audiences. It's all very sad, and I don't know if the situation will ever correct itself. Broadway and the musical theater industry just may have reached the point of no return to a time when great musical theater is possible. |
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