Word: successful
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Perhaps it was not a startlingly original comparison, but it was a break from the conventional approach to a musical, and Cabaret was an artistic as well as a commercial success--perhaps the last hit Prince will ever produce. He felt that he had compromised too much on Cabaret, imposing a plot on the original Christopher Isherwood stories, adding a subordinate story for the sake of love interest, toning down some of the biting satire. "My shows don't do as well now at the box office as Cabaret did because now I do them exactly as I want...
...BLAMES himself and other Broadway producers to a certain extent for this state of affairs--for "desensitizing" the audience--but he insists that part of the responsibility is theirs. What he doesn't seem to realize is that the Broadway system, by forcing up ticket prices and making financial success the sole criterion, has created its own monster, the Broadway audience. And now that entrepreneurs are offering unfamiliar fare, that audience is dwindling. They are unwilling to pay $15 a person to sit on bleachers and risk being offended...
Harold and Maude. A great box office success, presumably because of group of semi-zombies each saw the thing 350 times. With music by the didactic Cat Stevens...
...just think that what I was listening to students talking to me about was something more specific than that, just as I think "the motive to avoid success" is not an appropriate analysis of working-class women in modern-day America. They don't have those kinds of conflicting pressures on them. It's basically a problem of more privileged women who're getting conflicting signals...
...Year - if only this were 1927. After nearly a year on the road, the revivalists have managed to iron out all the show's wrinkles. They are now presenting them onstage. The ancient flapdoodle of a plot (updated to the mid-'30s) hinges upon the success of a college football team, a situation the Marx Brothers sent up for ever in Horse Feathers of 1932. The De Sylva, Brown & Henderson score, much of it shanghaied from other mu sicals, is loaded with bolts of melody...