The only one’s of those I can even figure out are Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy.
Hardly. From BroadwayWorld.com:
I’m betting that this is one of the reality shows that doesn’t quite make it.
Even in midseason, even in January, this show has no appeal. Their best shot at a demographic is going to be watching Desperate Housewives instead. They’ve tied it to the hideously awful Apprentice LA (which looks more and more like the Apprentice parody). Unlike “Idol” these people aren’t ever going to entertain me. (I don’t watch Idol - but from what I understand, they get record contracts that play on radio stations I can get, do movies that I can see at my local cinema, and then go on tour in my neighborhood. These people are competing for a chance to play in NY. I’m not going to NY. Even when the touring show comes through - the NY stars aren’t going to be the ones on tour.) What does the average American viewer care who stars in a show that they’re never going to see.
I predict it lasting 3 episodes at most.
If you want to see a better-performed, more-enthusiastic production of Grease than this, there is certainly some junior high school within 20 miles whose Drama Club is doing it this spring.
Yes, you’re taking this more seriously than the original Bway production did. It’s a song and dance show, that’s all. Get up off your seat and dance along with everybody else.
I hope my last post didn’t come across as rude, I wrote it on my way out the door but reading back it seems kinda snippy.
The thing I think is interesting is that NBC is no longer using the stylized car-logo from the movie in their advertising. Did they forget to ask Paramount permission?
I love My Name Is Scheinbaum too!
Just like every reality show known to man, this one is stolen from a foreign country: You’re The One That I Want is a BBC production, inspired by the United Kingdom’s How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
Further to mobo85’s comment, the winning contestant, Connie Fisher, now playing Maria, has received excellent notices, and the stage show is immensely popular.
Alas, therefore, I have to demur on the “I do not consider myself a snob in any way” comment, in the context of your thinking that Broadway is anything other than a bunch of theaters trying to drum up business, and stealing a canny way of doing it.
One out of two: Desperate Housewives and reruns of Green Acres.
Well, as long as it’s not on opposite DH, MNIS or UB. Or the reruns of GA they’ve been showing, just before TDSWJS.
Desperate Housewives, My Name is Simon (Earl), Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy (or Green Acres)…
But I’m stuck on the last one.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
I intended the word “stealing” to be ironic- since both shows are produced by the BBC, it’s not so much theft as it is import. At least it gives whichever songwriter’s still alive a source of income that doesn’t involve suing cruise lines.
Well, color me stupid. I was under the impression that Broadway was struggling. In fact, I remember a few years back there was talk of replacing some of the musicians with recorded music in order to save $$.
[Gilda Radner]Never mind.[/Gilda Radner]
That actually happened…but that was because the AFM union wanted more money, not as a cost-cutting maneuver.
We’re talking about a play, even if it’s a Broadway show. What exactly are the professional qualifications here? It’s not like somebody’s going to die on the table if we pick the wrong actor for the part.
I figure that competing in and winning a reality show is at least as good a method for picking an actor as the traditional method of screwing the casting director.
Although on further thought, a reality show about a group of attarctive contestants offering sexual favors to a casting director for a role in a play has some commercial possibilities - Sleeping Your Way To The Top! - we’ll have to do it on cable though.
Combine that concept with the one about the women who THINK the guy is a millionaire, when he is in fact a construction worker. So the women are trying to “work out a deal” with who they think is a casting director, and find out that he’s like, an apprentice light technician. 
Just to clarify, the talk actually happened. The musicians union struck and there was talk about using pre-recorded tracks. Had me in a sweat because I had a trip planned for NYC to see a couple of Broadway shows just as the strike was getting underway.
Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head. A few more minutes of my John Travolta imitation, and my husband will be finding the OP for revenge.
I’ll probably watch the first episode, too. So now everyone can hate me.
I have it DVR’d. I’m waiting to see if Sex shows up for the audition.
“Sex” was a contestant “So You Think You Can Dance.” who really thought he could. He couldn’t.