| re: DEAD OUTLAW Yesterday | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:08 pm EDT 03/24/24 | |
| In reply to: re: DEAD OUTLAW Yesterday - NewtonUK 09:12 pm EDT 03/24/24 | |
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| I more or less agree with much of what seems like a consensus here about this show. What I do not agree with very much are labels and especially facile, imprecise ones. To wit, off-Broadway. It more or less came to be three generations ago, roughly eight generations after what we might call the advent of New York theatre. "The kind of show that off Br[o]away used to be about" lasted about 1.5 of the first two of those three generations. Prior to off-B, many of the then-Broadway theatres would now be considered off-B. And in the early days of off-B, it was viewed as an alternative to the commercialism of Broadway. That idea had a pretty short shelf life and pretty soon we had what some now nostalgically call commercial off-B. While this was happening, we also started to see the formation of non-profit off-b theatres. By the third generation, that increasingly became all we had. Then that started to become increasingly commercial as well, and another alternative started to grow, off-off-B, first mostly downtown, and later in places called Williamsburg and Bushwick and even Long Island City, which is too far to walk from Greenwich Village. But that too misses a part of the elusive label, because a show like Dead Outlaw which may not have to go to Broadway to feel special, because it can go somewhere where each of us can choose how loud is "very load" by pushing (or rotating or rocking) a volume control. Neat. So much for shared experiences. And yes I know my little essay sometimes overgeneralizes, or glosses over, the full scope and range of this label's ins and outs, but I hope it gives more or less some folks at least more or less one thing to think about. :-) |
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