The big names on Broadway this season aren’t Stephen Sondheim and Neil Simon, but Baz Luhrmann and Billy Joel and Russell Simmons. Musicals and dramas are out; poperas, dance-icals, and poetrash are in. This is neither nothing new nor the end of Western civilization.” It is “a grand convergence of pop art and high art. After all, even in the best of Broadway times, when was the last time the Great White Way played host to poetry, opera, and ballet simultaneously? For that matter, when was the last time the Great White Way was so welcoming to other skin and hair colors? Such concerns, though, are more archeological than critical.”