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Broadway Controversy?!

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Hi everyone, today’s article will be a little different from usual. Instead of giving you the news, I’ll be speaking my mind about a controversial topic that is travelling through the Broadway community right now. Many theater fans say that the new musicals that are coming out, are replacing the original shows and not in a good way. Now I get their point but I actually disagree. Let me explain myself in this article before you go mad in the comments. Here is a little summary of the text you’re about to read, the new musicals are good and the original ones had their time. So, continue reading if you want to I’ll just be stating what I think about this "controversy". Firstly, some of the new musicals that are coming out are actually better than some of the original Broadway shows. I think that the new shows are of higher quality because they learned from some of the mistakes the old shows might have made. Now, I agree some shows are corny and not that original but I act

The Play That Goes Wrong on BBC!

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The BBC has just announced The Goes Wrong Show, based on the hit Broadway show The Play That Goes Wrong , according to the magazine Variety. Lewis and Jonathan Sawyer and Henry Shields, his co-writers and the original co-stars of the play, will write the series. Each episode will parody the same genre as the play, such as a courtroom drama and spy thriller. This is actually the second time the BBC Channel have worked on Mischief Theatre comedies.   They have worked in the past on Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong . The acclaimed stage comedy The Play That Goes Wrong debuted in London and moved to Broadway, it recently transferred to Off-Broadway’s New World Stages. This Broadway hit is basically a play within a play where the characters fall upon a plethora of disasters, including doors sticking, props falling from the walls and floors collapsing. Cast members are often seen misplacing props, forgetting lines, missing cues, breaking character, mispro