Isherwood: ‘The Broadway Musical Seems To Have Lost Its Voice’

“More gently one could say it appears to be in tentative search of a new one, and in the interim has increasingly relied on sounds from other realms of music, namely rock and pop, to provide the central ingredient in the theatrical recipe.” Like the television series Glee, Broadway is “using repurposed spare parts from the cultural trove of the past half-century to spin fresh forms of entertainment.”