Here’s Why American Musical Theatre Has Slipped From The Mainstream

“Now that Broadway-minded songwriters no longer have a universal musical language on which to draw, it isn’t possible to write a show with genuine broad-gauge audience appeal. It says everything about the desperate state of the American musical that the last theatrical song to become an enduringly popular hit, Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” was written in 1973.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1ErM6LR

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