Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) Newsgroups: net.theater Subject: Re: Musicals, specifically Rogers & Hammerstein Message-ID: <2158@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 15:15:34 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2158 Posted: Sat Jan 5 15:15:34 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 04:21:32 EST References: <274@pertec.UUCP> <301@ssc-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) Distribution: na Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 15 Summary: >A related question is whether The Sound of Music, if released today, would be >as popular, or is it so listenable/watchable because the music is SO INCREDIBLY >familiar. Now? Probably not, but theater goes in cycles. There was a time when a Cats or a Sweeney Todd or an Evita would have died at the gate, and a Chorus Line would have languished off broadway somewhere as well. One of these days someone will start doing serious light musicals again and they will be back. For a while, of course. -- From the ministry of silly talks: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Deadbone erotica is the prickly panic of forgotten milleniums, it is the moldy billion year madness that creeps deep along the spinal behind of my mind.