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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala)
Newsgroups: net.theater
Subject: Re: Musicals, specifically Rogers & Hammerstein
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Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 15:15:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  5 15:15:34 1985
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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.