Re: Save Live Broadway

Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:17:19 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.music.pearl-jam
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"synecdoche" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> I realize online petitions are rarely an effective means of doing
> anything, but I just read on alt.guitar.bass that some Broadway
> producers want to get rid of live music at shows and replace it with
> the canned variety.
I agree with Dave and I signed this petition. I ask everyone to do the
same. Seeing a show with taped music would be a much less enjoyable
experience. How would you feel going to a Britney Spears concert and you
found out she lipped synced the whole show? Ah, bad example. :)
All kidding aside, imagine going to see Pearl Jam and they just pretended to
play their instruments and, instead, their show was pretaped. It would be
horrible and Broadway shows would be no different. Broadway gets away with
charging 80 bucks a ticket(and people bitch at PJ charging 42 and think it's
a lot) b/c it's a live show. To charge a person 80 bucks to listen to a
prepated soundtrack would be insulting to that person.
If they choose to play a tape instead of using live musicicans, they will
lose my business at musicals forever.
John