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Could have been worse. There was a time when corporations would literally pay to produce entire broadway productions about their companies. https://en.wikipedi
by Qub3d 7y ago
Could have been worse. There was a time when corporations would literally pay to produce entire broadway productions about their companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_musical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_musical
- pwodhouse 7y agoRemember "The Internship"?
- crooked-v 7y agoThe documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway suggests that those productions got positive reponses from employees, but that probably had to do with good production values (some of the shows cost more than actual Broadway runs) and it being an expenses-paid day trip for everybody.
- Qub3d 7y agoThat's actually where I learned about industrial musicals myself. I wanted to link a more direct explanation, however.
- IggleSniggle 7y agoThese still exist in the form of corporate newsletters filled with high-production videos of very serious people saying very serious things. It's still considered a musical, it's just you hafta have the right Dadaist frame of mind to get it.