{"id":604,"date":"2009-08-13T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/08\/is-it-a-crime.html"},"modified":"2009-08-13T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:42:00","slug":"is-it-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Is It a Crime…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

-to have wanted Grey Gardens <\/span>to sweep the 2007 Tony Awards?<\/p>\n

-to admire every actress who has starred in <\/span>Gypsy <\/span>on Broadway and not play favorites?<\/p>\n

-to prefer William Warfield’s rendition of “Ol’ Man River” to Paul Robeson’s?<\/p>\n

-to want the original production of Follies – <\/span>sets, costumes, staging – brought back every year or made part of the NYCO repertory?<\/p>\n

-for Encores! to stick to their original mission?<\/span><\/span> (More Juno, <\/span>less Birdie<\/span>)<\/p>\n

-to want a cast album for every musical that opens, regardless of whether or not the show is any good?<\/p>\n

-to dislike the British megamusicals?<\/p>\n

-for actors to be cast by hard work, discipline and auditions rather than a reality TV series?<\/p>\n

-for a musical to be wholly original?<\/p>\n

-to admire both Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim?<\/p>\n

-for a contemporary non musical play to sustain a three year run?<\/p>\n

-to prefer integrated musicals over interpolated musicals?<\/p>\n

-to delineate between a revue and a jukebox musical?<\/p>\n

-to gently correct people when they mistakenly use the term “Broadway soundtrack” instead of “Broadway cast album\/recording”?<\/p>\n

-to televise the Tony Awards ceremony in a different Broadway house each year?<\/p>\n

-for Colony to gouge their prices so?<\/p>\n

-to close a cash cow that’s become an industry joke?<\/p>\n

-to disapprove of the internet surcharges and service fees when purchasing theatre tickets?<\/p>\n

-for the exemplary Jan Maxwell to star in a critical and financial smash on Broadway?<\/p>\n

-for the original orchestrations to be respected rather than discarded (I’m talking to you, Roundabout)<\/p>\n

-for the Times Square Church to vacate the Mark Hellinger Theatre?<\/p>\n

-for a Broadway house to be named for Oscar Hammerstein II?<\/p>\n

-to allow more than three minutes for a Best Musical and Revival of a Musical nominee to perform on the Tony telecast?<\/p>\n

-to enjoy the new pedestrian friendly Times Square?<\/p>\n

-to listen to an overture, entr’acte and exit music uninterrupted by conversation?<\/p>\n

-for individuals to turn off their goddamn cell phones, blackberries and iPhones while a show is in progress? (oh wait, it is…)<\/p>\n

-for Encores! (or some other group) to present an annual concert series of Broadway flops for us to see how and why they failed?<\/p>\n

-to have a hit show play the Lyceum Theatre?<\/p>\n

-for contemporary musical theatre composers to write pop scores that aren’t unhealthy to sing?<\/p>\n

-to have the Drama Desk Awards aired on PBS again?<\/p>\n

-for Off-Broadway theatre to get as much love as Broadway?<\/p>\n

-to grab a lamppost and then sing “Sweet Adeline”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

-to have wanted Grey Gardens to sweep the 2007 Tony Awards? -to admire every actress who has starred in Gypsy on Broadway and not play favorites? -to prefer William Warfield’s rendition of “Ol’ Man River” to Paul Robeson’s? -to want the original production of Follies – sets, costumes, staging – brought back every year or … Continue reading Is It a Crime…?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1957],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}