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CultOfByron 10:00 pm UTC 12/31/09 |
| In reply to: | Happy New Decade! - rockfenris2005 03:03 am UTC 12/31/09 |
| On the other hand there's been the continued success of Tanz throughout continental Europe. But I see your point, not a classic decade but things always seem to have to get worse before they get better; and it's the moments of personal triumph we need to cling to WHEREVER WE FIND THEM in the next decade to claw our way out of this hole. May the 10s fare us all better :) Happy New Year everyone x > Yeah, it really has been the decade from hell, hasn’t it? > George W. Bush for President, September 11 World Trade > Center bombings, 2 wars, the tsunamis, the rise of Reality > TV, the worst decade of pop music ever even worse than the > 90s, the worst decade for musical theatre ever with shows > like "The Producers", "Wicked" and "Spamalot" being the > only real spectacular hits of the decade... > > And the worst decade ever for Jim with the cancellation of > the "Batman" musical, the gigantic flaming piece of crap > that was "Dance of the Vampires" on Broadway, "Garbo" > flopping in Sweden at the same time, the anti-climactic > "Wuthering Heights" with the worst Steinman song ever > being the only new track, Meat Loaf's abomination "The > Monster is Loose" preceded by one of his biggest flops > since "Blind Before I Stop", Iron Mountain losing the > original masters for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "The > Dream Engine" project going nowhere fast... > > Moving along, Queen produced that abomination album with > Paul Rodgers, Disney actually stopped producing > traditional hand-drawn animated features for a while, > instead mimicking DreamWorks with their "Shrek" and > "Madagascar" franchises, Andrew Lloyd Webber composing > some of his least interesting and least popular scores > ever "The Beautiful Game" and "The Woman in White", "By > Jeeves" and "The Woman in White" being his only Broadway > outings in the decade and both of them closed within > months, the industrious Frank Wildhorn only one had show > on Broadway which the producers walked away from after the > reviews and after it closed Frank was practically banished > to Continental Europe, no new musicals from Sondheim with > the exception of the meager (not technically new) New York > producers of "The Frogs" and "Road Show", Julie Taymor > actually working on a "Spider-Man" musical that’s supposed > to have triple the budget of "Dance of the Vampires", > sheesh. > > I could go on and on... > > For me, it’s been a decade I will always remember, > wonderful and exciting at times and terrible and scary. > 2007 was the worst year out of all of them but 2008 and > 2009 were full and I will always remember those years > forever. > > Happy New Decade, > > Ryan. > | |
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