They need to return to the timeless spiritual, meaningful reasons why people are attracted to music and theater in the first place.
in 2019, Broadway was about extracting maximum tourist money with crappy and simplistic remakes of cartoons and distorting old stories and archetypes for political reasons.
Yeah, it has been spiralling down to just what you describe on one hand and heavy-handed Marxist moral screeds on the other, for a few decades now. But can still ne a special experience and has gone up and down in quality for a long time now.
True. Broadway theater was pretty much finished well before the C19 nonsense. There hadn’t been a good new show in a couple of decades. They relied on turning movies like “Dirty Dancing” “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” into stage shows, doing musicals based on rock bands such as “We Will Rock You” and reviving the classics. Nothing really innovative in a while.
“Hamilton” might have had a shot at being good, but they destroyed it with woke crap and having the cast lecture people. I never saw it and never intend to.