The demise of Dude is not just the tale of a Broadway flop it may very well be the defining story of the entire genre. It was only a matter of time before the world would see her wings burn. Talk like that would make even Icarus blush. вЂњI have three college degrees, and I know if something is good,вЂќ she told The New York Times. With All Around Town, a farce directed by Dustin Hoffman and Terrence McNallyвЂ™s The Ritz, she had two hits under her name and was brimming with confidence.

In the early 1970s, the press praised Holzer as a bright, young producer willing to take risks on groundbreaking material. The showвЂ™s producer Adela Holzer, recently died, once again shaking the grave of Dude. Dude was the lyricist Gerome RagniвЂ™s follow-up to Hair and has gone down as one of BroadwayвЂ™s biggest fiascos. Why have we been so forsaken? The only reasonable conclusion is that the formidable ghost of Dude has been standing in the way of Big Lebowski: The Musical taking its rightful place alongside Hamilton and The Book of Mormon as BroadwayвЂ™s gifts to this, still young (yet, seemingly long-in-the-tooth) century. Instead, the little indie film Waitress was improbably turned into a smash hit, while Big Lebowski: The Musical remains but a dream.

It is quite obviously a slam dunk idea, and if we are to believe string theory, we are stranded in the one dimension out of thirteen where this glorious reality does not exist. One of the great disappointments of the 21 st Century surely has to be that the seemingly inevitable Big Lebowski: The Musical has somehow not yet materialized.

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