Have you been wondering: Why are all the musicals I have ever seen pandering to statists? Why isn’t there a libertarian musical? One reason might be that the funding for theater productions nowadays all comes from 501 (c) (3) compliant nonprofits. This is true whether it is a local community theater production or a Broadway play. Making an honest profit off art is not how it happens. I am sure people profit, but even Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century admits that the growing divide between haves and have-nots comes in the form of income inequality, not capital accumulation. In other words, your salary can be as big as you like, when you are the one setting it. But your company will show no profit.
If I offer The Debt Collector to local community productions, which are usually run by devout Mormons with credentials from Julliard, I am told that the sexy songs are too sexual.
“Have you seen Les Miserables?” I ask. “Do you think that Fantine’s downfall is not much more explicit?”
“What passes muster on Broadway is not okay for Main Street America,” I am told.
“But what about Annie? Annie is for kids. Have you seen Carol Burnett’s Miss Hannity? Have your children seen her?”
“That’s different.”
Why is that different? How is it different? Could it be because that show enshrines FDR? I personally would have loved to see Miss Hannity get it on with Daddy Warbucks. They are, after all, both statists.
And then there is the whole anti-Landlord thing. Why, oh, why is “Master of the House ” not offensive, when songs like “Law Abiding People” are triggering?
Because it is not fair to the underclasses to make fun of them? Then why does the guy who sings “Master of the House” have a cockney accent? Your disdain for the newly risen and adulation for aristocrats is scarcely hidden, Mister Liberal-Minded Intellectual.
We have a problem. Every musical I know of caters to the same ideology, and nobody, left or right of center, is doing a thing to change it.
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