What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make.
It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.
Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
Post-production is kind of the death of hope. The money has been spent. The grand ideas are either there or they're not there. So music oftentimes has to compensate if there are issues, or it has to stay out of the way if the movie is working really well.
There's little money in theatre.
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.