Why’d They Bomb? Live TV Musicals

https://lebeauleblog.com/2019/07/10/whyd-they-bomb-live-tv-musicals/

And then there was Rent Live…? Rent Live (I guess?) got a lot of critique from people when, thanks to an actor injuring his foot, it turned out not to be live after all and was, instead, mostly pre-taped, with only a few scenes being live. While reviews were at least better than Fox’s last two attempts at making a live musical, the damage was done. People just don’t trust Fox’s live musicals anymore because they made one people liked and the rest of them were hated by, well, everyone.

And, while NBC’s live musical ratings have been more or less consistent (with The Sound of Music being the exception), FOX’s disastrous handling of their live musicals, as well as the low ratings they receive, have been enough to put the future of live musicals into question.

So really, it’s thanks to the likes of Peter Pan, Rocky Horror, and A Christmas Story that these live musicals were an experiment that didn’t entirely work. And, right now, who knows if we’ll see another one anytime soon.