Summary
NOT so very long ago, people in the theatrical know were gloomily predicting the death of the musical. Things were looking so bleak by February 2002 that Andrew Lloyd Webber felt compelled to go out on a long, shaky limb and blame declining ticket sales on the "Bridget Jones culture" among twentysomething women. The typical 21st- century ladette, he argued, simply didn't book her tickets in advance any more. Rather, she would go to the pub after work, have a few drinks with her friends and only then decide what to do with her evening.
A less charitable observer might have pointed out that nobody was going to see musicals any more because they had become boring and (whisper it) a bit naff, but not even the most miserly of onlookers could level the same accusation at the musicals of today.See the full content of this document
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Since October 2003, when Jerry Springer: The Opera opened at London's...
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