How to Dismantle a [Theatric] Bomb: Broadway Flops, Broadway Money, and Musical Theater Historiography by Elizabeth L. Wollman

“…Using as examples <i>Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death</i> (1971)<i>, Merrily We Roll Along</i> (1981), <i>Carrie</i> (1988), and <i>Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark</i> (2011), I will suggest that a money-minded approach to the study of musicals may help paint a clearer picture of what kinds of shows have been collectively deemed successful enough to remember, and what gets dismissed as worthy of forgetting.…”
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