Klarinet Archive - Posting 000377.txt from 2003/03

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Richard Bush`s Letter to Actor's Equity
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:25:26 -0500

Where do theater executive producers come from? If they are to any extent
products of the theater programs in high schools and colleges in the United
States that have almost certainly been exposed to the Broadway musicals
that are frequently performed there. If they are Harvard MBA with no
training in the arts, you are probably correct.

Gary
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At 06:24 AM 3/8/03, Tony W. wrote:
> Our problem lies in the areas that has already been discussed
>100`s of times in here - our present education of music systems. We have now
>already in situ, (it might indeed be an already lost cause) a bunch of
>younger music and theatre executive producers who do not know anything about
>real music. They see four rock musicians in TV shows. They see one busker in
>a pub, or one, 2 or 3 jazzers in a bar, all with *singers*. They see a full
>symphony orchestra in a *classic pop* concert - Strauss polka etc without
>any singers, and they immediately connect with the crass uneducated thinking
>that singers can perform with a smaller backing. It`s there in everyday
>living. It`s here to stay, and the MU won`t shift it. All you (we) can do is
>try to make the excecs realise that ALL have to economise, in addition to
>the musicians.
>I wish you all the very best of luck. But I shan`t be coming to Broadway for
>a while yet - - -
> Tony W.

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