Posted on 11/30/2015 9:20:21 PM PST by TBP
Michael Riedel, who has covered Broadway for this paper for nearly 20 years, is a friend of mine; in fact, I hired him to do the job back in 1998.
So you are free to dismiss me when I tell you that his book “Razzle Dazzle†is not only one of the best histories of American show business ever published, but one of the great New York City books as well.
But don’t dismiss me. I’m telling you about “Razzle Dazzle†because it tells a story people really need to hear right now — a story about how what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called “creative destruction†can serve as the defibrillator and revitalizer of a city’s beating heart.
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Have seen Phantom four times :)
Soundtrack is phenomenal.
Didn’t really like anything else I saw, including Les Miserables.
Almost committed suicide during CATS.
Rocky wasn’t bad :) but it left quickly. A success in Germany. go figure.
Lion King good if you’re ten.
Those are my reviews folks :)
No where else in the world do union stage hands make $200,000+
I LOVE Cats. (But then, I’m an Eliot freak. I quote him often.)
Les Miserables was excellent as well. One of my all-time favorite lines is “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Phantom is great.
I like most of what i see on Broadway. I just don’t get there often enough.
Currently, Something Rotten! looks like a load of fun.
Phantom was a fluke. :) I’m not a big Broadway fan, but it is huge to NYC.
Phantom was just very musically and visually impacting.
I would see it a fifth time.
Bullets Over Broadway, by Woody Allen, i missed darn it.
Misery out now :)
From the title onward, I’ll dismiss him.
I did something today I rarely (but always hugely) enjoy.
I watched “All About Eve”.
For those who don’t know, it’s about a woman named Margo Channing (Played by an incomparable Bette Davis) who is the stage actor of her time and her run in with Eve Harrington (played by Ann Baxter), the story builds, the dialogue gets snarky, the claws come out and the cats go to war.
It won the 58??? I guess Academy Award for best picture, after 14 nominations, but sadly, David lost her nomination to some piece of filmstock I never even saw!
The reason I mention it is there is one scene when Merril chews Davis out about “the theatre...” and it’s pretty ironic the things he says about New York and Broadway (without mentioning either by name, but you get the gist!)
Great film. But for a New Yorker to once again say “Broadway...!!!”, well back to what Merril said!
I just so happen to be listening to Genesis’ “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” as I came across this thread.
I’ve got that disc. One of Genesis’s best.
From back when rock made a serious attempt to be the “new classical” of our time.
Sadly, it fell into “the new 45 pop” of our time, with simple rock songs being downloaded and duplicated and downloaded and duplicated and downloaded and duplicated and downlo... on and on and on and on!
But from what I hear, the new Adele disc seems to be changing the picture, she’s making a YUGE amount of bucks on her no download philosophy! Good on her!
I went there with my wife’s niece back in 2012. Saw ..
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT,
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
ANYTHING GOES
EVITA
Loved it!
wow 4
I can see Lauren Bacall more than Claudette Colbert.
Still, I would bet none can match the sarcastic wit and charm of Bette Davis!
Kinda sad that so many greats have passed, and all the young ones are billionaires...
Oh well!
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