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The Broadway pop cycle.... by Mark Shenton

There are currently 23 musicals running on Broadway (though one of them, Spider-man - Turn off the Dark is actually on hiatus so that it can comprehensively overhauled, and another, American Idiot, closes this coming weekend). And while there are still more shows with original scores than not, over a third of them now feature scores of recycled pop songs, and a further four shows are scored by pop writers crossing ov…

SOURCE: The Stage at 07:52AM on April 19, 2011

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