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Observations OnStage Blog Staff Observations OnStage Blog Staff

Meat Loaf, musical theatre & what could have been

“That theatre people don’t seem to know that Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman were fellow theatre people first seems to me like a failing of theatre. But it also confirms the ways that theatre’s exclusivity and protectiveness of Broadway as a “brand” limited the types of stories that could be told onstage.”

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The Truth About the State of Broadway

“No one is talking about what’s really going on behind the lobby doors on Broadway. In an effort to get to the “new normal” and for life to “move on” post Covid there’s a lot that’s been swept under the rug in a seeming attempt to prove the adage “ignorance is bliss.”"

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