Posted 7:57 PM by Gene

We have written so often about our nation's cultural decay (one reason I find it more difficult than ever to post; I don't want to repeat myself) that when some Daily Kaplan typist declares the death of the cast album we note all the little news hack things that furrow our eyebrows. For instance:

Broadway is not viewed as musically relevant [SIC]

Note the responsibility-waiving passive construction -- but it's not just Branson East, it's our whole damned culture that's irrelevant; tentpoles and "reality" shows and ephemeral downloads...just the names and the technologies say these things will vanish. (We've already mentioned the depressing joke behind the name of Ghostlight Records.) If the material were truly good it would get heard. As for studios -- why not rent Webster Hall? The proprietors need the money. No, Branson East theme parks stink, they stink musically more than for anything else, and the only place these tourist traps should be memorialized is in the warehouses where their flats and props and manuscripts go to collect dust.

(Via AHTSJournal, which must link to such word amalgamations)