I don't understand Broadway any more.

This year, I am told, Broadway made record box office sales. This surprises me because there is very little on Broadway, other than a few plays, that I would want to see and even the dramas that interest me are not worth $100 or more for two hours. After watching the Tony's I am even more surprised at Broadway's success, which is probably due mostly to musicals. Especially surprising was the insipid love song from "Spider-Man, Turn of the Dark" the most expensive show on the Great White Way (Is Broadway still called that?). "Spider-Man" is playing at the boringly re-re-renamed Foxwoods Theater, which has almost 2,000 seats. I can't imagine how they can fill that many seats nine times a week at prices as high as $234.00. Do that many people feel it's worth $65.00 and up to see a modern-day version of Peter Pan with rock music? And how comfortable can one be sitting below two fighting—and likely sweating—actors on cables—cables that have already proven dangerously problematic? This doesn't seem to me like a sure cash cow. And it isn't like they'll sell the show to the movies: Hollywood already has enough Spider Men. And is this the new Broadway? Like the movies will Broadway shows become more special effects than great music and superior writing? And even worse, will most of the new musicals be reimagined movies like "Catch Me if You Can," "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," "The Full Monty," "Billy Liar," etc.? If that's the case, I sure as hell wouldn't pay $250 to hear the kind of songs one can expect from "The King's Speech, the Musical."