Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Quote of the Day: "The juke-box musical is the cockroach of Broadway musicals"
"The juke-box musical is the cockroach of Broadway musicals"--this gorgeous line comes from New York Times theater critic Jesse Green's scathing review of the new musical "Summer," which details the life of Donna Summer, which is presently at the Lunt-Fontaine and is actually making a lot of money. The use of the term cockroach implies that juke-box musical, where old songs from a particular artist are used, will survive everything on Broadway, including nuclear war.
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