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| Talk about a cast. Philip Seymour Hoffman is possibly the greatest living American actor. Andrew Garfield, one of the hottest. |
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| This is a trimmed down version for Broadway. The original opera is 4 hours. They use most of the songs, but turn the recitatives into connecting dialogue. It's worth it just to see Audra. |
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| And on the same street, this new production is opening. It's apparently a new musical using lots of Gershwin music. |
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| She works a lot. |
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| Ricky Martin is the reason this is happening. Ricky Martin as Che Guevara? Gotta love Broadway. |
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| A musical version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is here at the Palace. Coming soon: Ghost, the musical. Back to the left, Phantom is still running, but the new color is blue. Godspell just reopened with a Glee-like production. |
The thing I notice the most, walking around, is that most everyone you run into is a tourist. The atmosphere is like a carnival. The created a big plaza in Times Square, and now everyone goes there. All the Broadway theaters are within walking distance of Times Square.
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| I believe they had a big successful run in London. |
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| This is new. |
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| Oh my lord. Look at THAT cast! |
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| Another new musical adaptation of a movie. |
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| Meanwhile, after Daniel Radcliffe's long, successful run, they put hot boy Darren Criss from GLEE into this. The girls were stacked up for blocks. Now, Nick Joans has settled in for a long run. |
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| This is where you get the discounted Broadway tickets. |
2 comments:
I love this series of photos, but the interesting thing is how many of them are revivals. Where are the playwrights, composers and lyricists of today...or, perhaps more accurately (since I'm talking to a lyricist/composer who lives with a playwright/lyricist), where is the audience for them?
Finding an audience is the most mystifying thing of all.
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