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The Problem With Broadway ‘Commodity Musicals’

THEATRE Posted: July 2, 2014 11:57 pm

Aladdin. Bullets Over Broadway. 9 to 5. Young Frankenstein. The Little Mermaid. Beauty and the Beast. And so on. “The most distinctive feature of these musicals is that they usually treat their source material not as a springboard for fresh, creative endeavor but as an exploitable economic commodity that can be ‘repurposed’ for further profit.”

THEATRE Published: 07.01.14

Read the story in Commentary Published: 07.01.14

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