Explore Pop Culture (Blog Post #5)

Because I am a Musical Theatre major and my passion is theatre, I'd love to explore Broadway musicals as pop culutre. Broadway has been very much affected by the changing world around us. It isn't all tap shoes and bright lights. Broadway has made some series changes through its years and years of shows.

These days, Broadway shows are extremly expensive to produce. In order to stay open more than a month the show must earn back most of it's profit in the first 2 weeks of it's opening! Producers are taking smaller risks in new shows for the fear they may flop and they're pumping all of their money in musical stage versions of Hollywood movies. Not only that, they are reviving old shows and putting Hollywood stars in them to bring in bigger audiences!! It makes getting work as an actor on Broadway that much harder. AND ANOTHER THING, they are creating shows based on a singer's hits. I think it's really sad that not it's not about making art half the time. It's about making money. Sure that's what our world is about but does it have to be such a big part of Broadway?

In my second essay I would love to explore the relationship between Hollywood and Broadway and how they are helping each other (if at all) and how it is hurting artists today who cannot express themselves because they're being overshadowed by the huge Hollywood sign.