AMERICAN THEATRE: From a 21st-century perspective, the template Oscar Hammerstein II helped set for the Broadway musical, integrating story, song, and dance, can seem old-fashioned. So, too, his depiction of the social order, with critiques of prejudice embedded in narratives in which love conquers (almost) all.
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This article helped me understand the weight Broadway Musicals carry with them to inspire and teach others. Without Broadway an entire industry of professionals would be destroyed and left to cause the world to be less creative. I find that with theatre we are able to explore the stories that would be otherwise hard to tell without the use of lights, sound, media, and musical soundtracks. The productions of Broadway Musicals get not only our hearts to sing but our heads to think about the rights and wrongs of life. Every time there is a new Broadway show there is a new experience and story to be told. Every show for six days a week becomes different for every audience member but they teach us what to value and trust and hope for in our lives. Broadway musicals teach us to dream and we learn the meaning of our lives through the stories of others. Without Broadway musicals, people like Stephen Sondheim would have never created the works of art that influence our life.
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