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They say the neon lights are dimming, on Broadway...

>>High ticket prices have also been a factor.

Shocked, shocked I tell you.

1 posted on 12/10/2008 10:07:11 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

>>Radcliffe will strip naked for Equus

Groucho Marx in 70s: “I heard there’s a musical, Oh Calcutta, where you pay $11 to see actors in the nude. I went home and took off my clothes. Believe me, it wasn’t worth $11.”


2 posted on 12/10/2008 10:12:38 AM PST by raccoonradio
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Gee, I don't go to the movies either because they want too much money to lecture me on gay rights, abortion, etc. I say good riddance to Broadway.
3 posted on 12/10/2008 10:15:30 AM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: raccoonradio

I would think that call in gay day would devastate Broadway.


4 posted on 12/10/2008 10:18:05 AM PST by pfflier
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If they had any brains they would look back to what helped Broadway in prior troubled times.........POSITIVE MUSIC.

Where are the Gershwins, the Porters, the Berlins, and all the other geniuses that brought America to its feet with patriotic and positive music?

Instead we get “Brokeback Mountain..the gay musical”


5 posted on 12/10/2008 10:23:07 AM PST by EggsAckley (,)
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Look. Bye-Bye Birdie is still one of the most popular musicals ever written. Debuted on Broadway in April, 1960. It has almost no plot or dialogue but the music is inspired and way entertaining. Not so for the rest. Most Broadway was always crap. Being seen at a Braodway show was a way to show you were hip, rich, and politically correct. Now, Broadway is like a saggy old hooker still trying to charge prime rates.
6 posted on 12/10/2008 10:27:22 AM PST by pabianice
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All but a handful of these are “revivals” of old shows. So no, I’m not surprised to see that people are not willing to cough up $400 just to see “Young Frankenstein”, “Hairspray”, or even “Grease”, which has been done by every high school since the 80’s.


7 posted on 12/10/2008 10:28:35 AM PST by alwaysconservative (First, they took away our freedom of speech. . .)
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Boeing-Boeing?

No wonder some of these are shutting down.

8 posted on 12/10/2008 10:29:17 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: raccoonradio

With the pc lip lock coming down on the students in college and arts school these days there are not a lot of great words being written, composed, choreographed or produced. The libs have shut down forward motion in the arts.


9 posted on 12/10/2008 10:31:28 AM PST by GOP Poet
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With the pc lip lock coming down on the students in college and arts school these days there are not a lot of great words WORKS being written, composed, choreographed or produced. The libs have shut down forward motion in the arts.
10 posted on 12/10/2008 10:32:18 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: neverdem

Do you still have that NYC ping list?


11 posted on 12/10/2008 10:34:06 AM PST by nutmeg (No terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11/01. Thank you President Bush.)
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I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the Empire State laid low.
And life went on beyond the Palisades,
They all bought bright Cadillacs
And left there long ago.

We held a concert out in Brooklyn
To watch the Island bridges blow.
They turned our power down,
And drove us underground
But we went right on with the show...

I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the ruins at my feet,
You know we almost didn’t notice it
We’d see it all the time on Forty-Second Street.

They burned the churches up in Harlem
Like in that Spanish Civil War
The flames were everywhere,
But no one really cared
It always burned up there before...

I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway
I watched the mighty skyline fall.
The boats were waiting at the Battery,
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all.
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free.
They said that Queens could stay,
They blew the Bronx away
And sank Manhattan out to sea...

You know those lights were bright on Broadway
But that was so many years ago...
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico.
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive...
To tell the world about...
The way the lights went out,
And keep the memory alive


13 posted on 12/10/2008 10:39:35 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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Multi-million dollar productions of Grease, Young Frankenstein, Hairspray, 13 and Boeing-Boeing will all close at the end of the holiday season on January 4.

An spamalot a couple of weeks later.

Many of these shows have had good runs,. however, and had about run their course anyway.

They say the neon lights are dimming, on Broadway...

They're not. Many interesting new shows are Broadway-bound, from a revival of West Side Story to a musical of the Addams Family.

20 posted on 12/10/2008 11:16:43 AM PST by TBP
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