Many audiences come to The Great White Way to avoid the real world. But some of the best live theater this year superbly weaved together truth and fantasy.
With the world perpetually on fire and all, audiences can sometimes gravitate more toward escapist entertainment on Broadway than the type of fare that more honestly reflects our bleak reality. But this year, gearing up to what ended up being an anticlimactic presidential election result, The Great White Way offered a plethora of stories that mirrored our deepest fears and ills and confronted our most cherished ideals.
From stories of abuse and faith to cultural conflict and delightfully subversive fairy tales, Broadway served an audience that was often in a state of turmoil. And for two hours , the theater got audiences to sit with these sometimes difficult feelings and hopefully come away better for it.,” it’s been a fruitful year for stories inspired by “The Wizard of Oz.” While “The Wiz” didn’t fare anywhere near as well at the Broadway box office as the blockbuster movie, it returned to a warm welcome.
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