"'I think there's a mistake being made. We haven't encouraged the young composers and lyricists as we did the earlier generation. In the course of my career, I did the first show with Bock and Harnick, and then with Sondheim, and then with Jason [Robert] Brown ['Parade'], who is a young and very, very gifted fellow. It's hard to get those people on Broadway now, and one of the main reasons is money and also the nature of producing.'"
I have no idea who this guy is, but I sympathize--and I am in complete agreement. Color me unimpressed by all the practices of modern Broadway. Starcasting, jukebox musicals, an unwillingness to experiment with grander productions. There's room for Mamma Mia (I loved the film), and even Spiderman (which I am looking forward to), and of course Denzel, but we need other kinds of musicals, and we need plays that aren't simply revivals/star vehicles. We need shows on Show Boat's scale.
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