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Is Broadway a dying art form?

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TazTarney
#1Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:10pm

Realistically, how long can Broadway last? Will there always be a place for it in this world?

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LizzieCurry
#2Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:11pm

Is this question asked every year? Every five years? Were you stepping out with Stephanie? Were you NOT?


"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

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TazTarney
#2Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:13pm

Stephanie who? Gonzalez?

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LizzieCurry
#3Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:16pm

Jeez. A person can't even make a Serial joke around here.


"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

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Kad
#4Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:18pm

Presumably, there will not be a place for Broadway in this world after the machines revolt.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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TazTarney
#5Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:21pm

I heard IRobot was coming to broadway in 2056.

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LizzieCurry
#6Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:27pm

Well, then I guess it's not a dying art form, now is it?


"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

Liza's Headband
#7Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:33pm

*This is not a real thread. Ignore.

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henrikegerman
#8Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:34pm

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

FindingNamo
#9Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:35pm

Lizzie Curry you made me laugh.


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TazTarney
#11Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:43pm

It's dying for the humans, Liz.

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LizzieCurry
#12Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:43pm

Thank god, Namo. THANK GOD.

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"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

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Mister Matt
#13Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:53pm

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

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tazber
#14Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 3:37pm

Who else can't wait to see what AE has to contribute?


....but the world goes 'round

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perfectlymarvelous
#15Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 3:41pm

Is this question asked every year? Every five years? Were you stepping out with Stephanie? Were you NOT?

Is Wicked really closing in 2025? What about The Lion King? Next time, on Serial.

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#16Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 4:03pm

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.


Tom McGovern Jr

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darquegk
#17Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 5:14pm

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.

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PalJoey
#18Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 5:59pm



Yes. George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart said so.


Is Broadway a dying art form?


In 1938.







PLAYBILL VAULT: The Fabulous Invalid


Updated On: 12/22/14 at 05:59 PM

FindingNamo
#19Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 6:35pm

I saw a good production of that with the Side Show girl who wasn't the Next to Normal nut.


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Susanswerphone
#20Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 6:41pm

How can it be dying when TDF lists Big Apple Circus' "Metamorphosis" as a Broadway offering?

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henrikegerman
#21Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 6:47pm

I've been seeing Broadway shows since the 70s.

This is far from the deadest Broadway has ever been.

Far from it!

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South Fl Marc
#22Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 8:48pm

"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.

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#23Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/22/14 at 9:30pm

^ Correct. I can't believe others didn't realize that the OP called Broadway an 'art form.'

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Mister Matt
#24Is Broadway a dying art form?
Posted: 12/23/14 at 10:41am

Is Broadway a dying art form?


"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian