Completely agreed. Don’t go on the Broadway sub, or indeed any Broadway-related media, though…
It’s just depressing at this point. They’re fully brainwashed… 😑
Ngl, when I first saw a local production of Urinetown a few years ago (one of these new musicals you speak of), I was like, “So that’s where musicals are at now?”
It was bad…
We have an oddly successful original “chamber opera” scene, here, though, so weirdly, that seems to be where the creativity is, here, now, at least locally…
Of varying and dubious quality, but nonetheless, lol!
But yeah, we’ve “come a long way” from working-class, accessible stories about normal people (I forgot South Pacific, too), to $300+ tickets to shitty musicals about wizards and Disney characters, that most people have to say up six months to see, lol…
Oh and Hamilton, which is… Even worse.
As you say, it’s bizaree how captured this “art form” has become. 😑
Completely agreed. Don’t go on the Broadway sub, or indeed any Broadway-related media, though…
It’s just depressing at this point. They’re fully brainwashed… 😑
Ngl, when I first saw a local production of Urinetown a few years ago (one of these new musicals you speak of), I was like, “So that’s where musicals are at now?”
It was bad…
We have an oddly successful original “chamber opera” scene, here, though, so weirdly, that seems to be where the creativity is, here, now, at least locally…
Of varying and dubious quality, but nonetheless, lol!
But yeah, we’ve “come a long way” from working-class, accessible stories about normal people (I forgot South Pacific, too), to $300+ tickets to shitty musicals about wizards and Disney characters, that most people have to say up six months to see, lol…
Oh and Hamilton, which is… Even worse.
As you say, it’s bizaree how captured this “art form” has become. 😑