Telegraph: Jean-Luc Godard said it four decades ago. Neil Tennant said it last year. Even Andrew Lloyd Webber said it – just before he launched Aspects of Love upon the world. The musical is dead. “Dead as cave painting,” declared a critic in The Guardian in 1992. “Dead in its tap shoes,” said the man from The Observer in 1999. “Dead on its feet,” affirmed this paper in 2007.
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The musical is dead? Ha! The musical is alive and thriving, and I have a strong faith that it will never be gone. There is so much pull from musicals because they are just so different. Where else can you connect with actors onstage who can sing and dance at the same time, and do it well? They are enticing because they're fun, or they're relatable, or they're packed with emotion and that's exactly what audiences love. How anyone can turn down lively dancing Mormons or a beautiful love story in an old opera house is beyond me; I believe that the musical is still going strong and will continue to appeal to audiences for generations.
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