what do you think about broadway productions?

Answer 1

I think many of the ones I've seen were overrated and that regional and even local productions were done with much more passion. In nearly every show I saw on Broadway there was at least 1 lead performer that I thought must have done some huge favor to a producer or director at some point to get this gig because he was trerrible and any member of the chorus could have done a much better job.

I also think the tickets are WAY overpriced!

Answer 2

I grew up in an era when Broadway productions were far better written than they are now. Musicals were filled with songs you went home singing; these are the classic stories that are being revived now. The singers were much better then, the plots more realistic. The present productions are gimmicky, noisy, colorful, heavy with fantasy and silly premises instead of real situations and childish instead of grown up. dramas are even worse.

We used to play LPs of "West Side Story", "Camelot" and
other shows with our neighbors , during afternoons at college. Some of us dreamed of being part of a world where "Inherit the Wind", "Twelve Angry Men" and "110
in the Shade" were our future.

And it was all taken from us. Now we have nothing. The same nothing we've had for more than 30 years. Only now it costs over a hundred dollars.