[NEohioPAL] From the New York Times; straight shows down, musical theatre up

[Al Diamond Phillips]

I think a point is being missed here. Musicals were in their Hayday, on film and in the Theater back when the world was at war, and times were tough. I believe it is no coincidence that they are back in full force now, when we are at war and times are tough. People want to have a break from their daily troubles, and Musicals do that for people.

Al Damond Phillips




--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Robert Hawkes <rhhawkes at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Hawkes <rhhawkes at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NEohioPAL] From the New York Times; straight shows down, musical theatre up
> To: "Christopher Fortunato" <learnedhand at live.com>
> Cc: neohiopal at listserve.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 10:57 PM
> Jeez, don't get me started. No disrespect to musical
> plays of actual honesty
> and substance, but this trend (a trend with a fraternal
> twin in the
> film-going population - ask John Ewing at the
> Cinémathèque) would seem to me
> merely a symptomatic eddy of the larger tidal shift, in the
> last 50-60
> years, as pop culture moves from the juvenile periphery to
> the adult center
> of our culture as a whole. We all know that it's harder
> and harder to get
> folk to sit still at a live theatre performance, accustomed
> as they are to
> the rapid jolts of TV and garbage-y movies, and what tends
> to draw them in,
> if they do come, is...well, let's just leave it at Easy
> Access - which,
> let's be frank, is what most musicals provide.
> 
> I'll stop.
> 
> Ho ho ho, everybody. Stay safe on New Year's Eve.
> 
> RHH
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