WENDY WASSERSTEIN:
I actually think it's truly rebounded because I'm a Tony voter so I spent the past weeks going to the Broadway theater. And actually the audiences there have seemed very excited about, you know, very different things. Sitting in the audience of "Private Lives" last week, for many of those people, it was the first time they had ever seen that play, and they were, you know, thrilled with it, clapping in between the scenes. And I thought that was remarkably healthy.
And I felt that same way seeing "The Crucible" and even seeing Edward Albee's play "The Goat." Afterwards I heard people talking about it. I mean, I think at issue here is, you know, "where are the new plays? How many new plays are being done on Broadway? How many new musicals there are." A lot of revivals. But the atmosphere is one– I agree with Carey– there's an upness to it and I think there's a joy in coming together, in rediscovering that sort of communal effect the theater has.
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