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The New York Times: City Center Encores!, the program that stages revivals of rarely seen but beloved Broadway shows, is partnering with the Jerome L. Greene Space at WNYC to create a new talk show about musical theater.
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Sarah Battaglia
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Well I think that this idea is great, and I look forward to watching it, as I'm sure thousands of high school aged theater fanatics are. I have always been a big believer in that theater, has a lot of very strong messages, and that there is a lot to be learned by the work that comes through Broadway. While I love this idea, I think it would be great to try and market it to people outside of theater. Right now they seem to just accept that they have created a "cult" product and so subsequently their audience will be members of it. I think more of an effort to expose what they discuss to people who don't already know every word to Hamilton would be helpful to the success of their product but also helpful for expending the community. I think sometimes as people who love theater we accept that we are part of a relatively small group. While that is true, I don't think it's enough of a reason to give up on trying to expand.
So I clicked on this article because I feel the need to understand the world of the talk show better. Talk shows have been around since the beginning of television and they have been so unbelievably influential. They influence audience’s views of actors and artists, they influence other television programs, they influence each other. Talk shows are still very prominent today, shows that both mimic the classics and shows that are trying to reinvent the wheel. I decide to use the format of a talk show for my Playground piece because I find them to be completely based in masturbation and attempted audience mind control. For one, the interviewees forced to be as charismatic as humanely possible, because their careers actually depend on it. And on top of that, the hosts are also feeling the pressure to be charismatic, not only from the audience but from their network executives and from other competing shows and hosts. The heart of talk shows is commercialism (the show is promoting the actor’s new movie and the actor is promoting the show) and they are so doused in falsity and anything that will make an audience smile.
I love the idea of a talk show about musical theater. This reminds me about a show that I will watch every once in a while when I go home (to New York City). It is basically a round table of people reviewing Broadway and Off Broadway shows in the City. It will also sometimes talk about upcoming events or changes in casting, and so on. It is informative and sometimes interesting, but I think this online show that this article talks about sons like a more lively idea than channel 1 theater reviews. I like that it will also have performances, I think this will totally help get viewers to watch this. I also like the fact that one of the first topics is about race and gender in the business because it is a hot button issue right now; gender equality in jobs and wages as well as casting decisions that may go against what a character should be racially.
3 comments:
Well I think that this idea is great, and I look forward to watching it, as I'm sure thousands of high school aged theater fanatics are. I have always been a big believer in that theater, has a lot of very strong messages, and that there is a lot to be learned by the work that comes through Broadway. While I love this idea, I think it would be great to try and market it to people outside of theater. Right now they seem to just accept that they have created a "cult" product and so subsequently their audience will be members of it. I think more of an effort to expose what they discuss to people who don't already know every word to Hamilton would be helpful to the success of their product but also helpful for expending the community. I think sometimes as people who love theater we accept that we are part of a relatively small group. While that is true, I don't think it's enough of a reason to give up on trying to expand.
So I clicked on this article because I feel the need to understand the world of the talk show better. Talk shows have been around since the beginning of television and they have been so unbelievably influential. They influence audience’s views of actors and artists, they influence other television programs, they influence each other. Talk shows are still very prominent today, shows that both mimic the classics and shows that are trying to reinvent the wheel. I decide to use the format of a talk show for my Playground piece because I find them to be completely based in masturbation and attempted audience mind control. For one, the interviewees forced to be as charismatic as humanely possible, because their careers actually depend on it. And on top of that, the hosts are also feeling the pressure to be charismatic, not only from the audience but from their network executives and from other competing shows and hosts. The heart of talk shows is commercialism (the show is promoting the actor’s new movie and the actor is promoting the show) and they are so doused in falsity and anything that will make an audience smile.
I love the idea of a talk show about musical theater. This reminds me about a show that I will watch every once in a while when I go home (to New York City). It is basically a round table of people reviewing Broadway and Off Broadway shows in the City. It will also sometimes talk about upcoming events or changes in casting, and so on. It is informative and sometimes interesting, but I think this online show that this article talks about sons like a more lively idea than channel 1 theater reviews. I like that it will also have performances, I think this will totally help get viewers to watch this. I also like the fact that one of the first topics is about race and gender in the business because it is a hot button issue right now; gender equality in jobs and wages as well as casting decisions that may go against what a character should be racially.
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