The Broadway musical, to the distress of those of us who think of it as America's own fine form, the thing we made first and still, Andrew Lloyd Webber be damned, make best, isn't really pop culture anymore. It's always too expensive, often too Disneyfied, mostly too strangely specialized a taste. But on rare occasions the American musical can still be central to what we should call our ceremonial culture. A so…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on February 5, 2016