Why aren't movie musicals popular anymore?

Monday, May 31st, 2010 at 10:55 am

There have been some really good musical movies out recently: Chicago, Rent, The Producers. And yet, only Chicago was modestly successful. Musicals used to be the movie studios bread and butter, now you’re lucky if you can get enough money to videotape a high school production (okay, I’m exaggerting, but still…) The few that do come out aren’t popular. Why is that?
I guess my real question is: Why can’t people suspend disbelief to enjoy musicals? Here’s a link to my blog post on the subject; that should help explain it a little more.
Woops! Forgot the link. Here it is: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-gSmhHxkwd6IhwNkHBKpfkw–?cq=1&p=11