Yes,we speak of thing that matter With words that must be said “Can analysis be worthwhile?” “Is the theatre really dead?” And how the room is softly faded And I only kiss your shadow I cannot feel your hand You’re a stranger now unto me Lost in the dangling conversation And the superficial sighs In the borders of our lives
You know how we always think those doomsday people are crazy every time they try to predict the end of the world? Broadway doomsdayers are like that. They've always been around and they've always been wrong and they've always sounded silly.
Sort like the "R.I.P. Times Square" people. Time Square is still here. It's changed in the past, it's changing now and it will change in the future. Just like everything else in life.
Now, if these stupid doomsday laments would become a dying art form, I'd gladly throw the wake.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Dennis Cunningham once said "the more the world get technologically advanced the more people will crave live theater." This question has been ask many times and the answer is, I believe no. We need good theater to make us more human and to think.
What's funny about that Simon and Garfunkel quote is that one of those dangling conversations has mostly been severed. The theatre has survived, but Freudian analysis was not proven to be all that worthwhile as a basis for psychology.
"Broadway" is not an art form. It is just a location and perfect for commercial, family friendly, crap theatre. Theatre as an art form is not dying. For great theatre go to off Broadway, Chicago or DC.