I'd like to play a game with you. What do all of these things have in common?
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Alice in Wonderland
The Birdcage
Sister Act
The Addams Family
Billy Elliot
Catch Me If You Can
Did you say they are all movies? You are soooo behind the times, loser. They're all musicals dummy! Like everything else in Times Square, Broadway is he'll-bent on selling itself to tourists and other generic human beings. Yes, The Lion King and Mary Poppins are successful, well-received musicals. They also happen to be based on movies that were, you know, musicals. Even most of those fail these days. It's almost as if Broadway producers got the memo that Hollywood is having it's most unoriginal year ever and decided to see which industry could alienate the artistic community more. Well, good luck with that Broadway, you're up against an industry that is basing it's art on forgotten toys from the 80s. Who wants to see the Stretch Armstrong* movie? Just kidding, I'm seeing Battleship* opening night.
*Real movies
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