>>High ticket prices have also been a factor.
Shocked, shocked I tell you.
>>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.”
I would think that call in gay day would devastate Broadway.
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”
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.
No wonder some of these are shutting down.
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.
Do you still have that NYC ping list?
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
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.