Almost Half of Broadway's Shows Closing

Charles Isherwood waxed nostalgic in yesterday's NYT saying that "almost half" of the current on-Broadway shows will be closing.  The one we plan to see over the Dr. Martin Luther King Day weekend wasn't on his list.  Despite the incredibly high prices we try to see one show every two or three months, schedule allowing.

Though regional theaters are closer, this being my opinion only, they're not the same as seeing a play or musical on Broadway. From San Francisco, to Boston and several places in between I've attended first rate road shows but always left with the feeling similar to viewing a good copy of an original painting.  You know what it "looks like" but until you see it in its true environment you haven't had THE experience.

A wonderful example of this is the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware:

If you've only seen images like this, or even framed paintings of one on a school wall or civic auditorium, not until you've been in the same room with it have you any idea of its dimensions.

It is larger than life and simply breathtaking.

And then there is the Mona Lisa.

Most of the copies you see framed are much larger than the original.  As I was standing looking at  it through the Plexiglas, the most common overheard comment was "That's it?! Much smaller than I expected." 

I won't ever start about Plymouth Rock.  Perhaps another blog entry.

The entire point of this is there is nothing like the original, good or bad.


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