Lauren Bacall -- Woman of the Year -- 1981.

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[gayzertube]

Every show should be filmed/taped for posterity and aired on a cable channel for stage shows for all to see for eternity. No show should disappear forever anymore.

[dotsymae]

This was a great experience in live theater...like when I stood and watched George Hearn sing "I am what I am" What a dull world it would be without the arts.

[gymnastix]

@gayzertube In such a scenario, computer keyboards and TV remote controls will also become one, and there will be no such thing as a separate computer monitor and TV set, just one, huge monitor for everything, perhaps even an entire wall of a room in one's home just for media viewing.

[gymnastix]

@gayzertube Someday, I think, cable television, libraries, and the Internet will converge, and we shall be able to access virtually every film, TV show, and Broadway play ever committed to film or videotape right from our own homes.

[gymnastix]

@gayzertube Practically speaking, most people may not travel to the only site that may have certain resources. So the obvious solution is to upload these resources, digitally, online.

If financing is required to do so, then charge users a subscription rate or a la carte, but upload them nevertheless.

[gymnastix]

@gayzertube What is needed are on-line resources for everyone to access media of Broadway, films, and television. Libraries need to "get with it" and join the 21st Century, with an eye toward the 22nd. Instead, most libraries are still operating some of their resources in a 20th Century manner. .

[gymnastix]

@gayzertube Actually, there is a resource for watching most Broadway produced post-1970, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. But, as with The Paley Centers of Broadcasting (in New York and Los Angeles), one may only view these videos on-site, and in the case of the Broadway shows, only with a good justification, such as for research, being a member of the media, etc.

[gymnastix]

@gayzertube I mean, wouldn't you really rather be able to watch Ethel Merman in "Gypsy" and Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire" than some third-rate production (with unknown actors) of "CATS" or "RENT?"

[gymnastix]

@gayzertube When I think of all the great programming that has been lost, I would call it artistically criminal.

But while we cannot do anything about what's already lost, we may do something to save programming from here on out And I agree with you there's no excuse for not preserving Broadway shows today. Of course, it's sad that the greatest era of Broadway is already, largely, lost forever.

[gymnastix]

@gayzertube I agree, Please read my comments regarding how this could be done.

I feel the same way about so much live television that has been lost, and also daytime and daily TV programming up until about 1980, where the then-expensive videotapes were re-used, a common practice of the networks called "wiping."

This is why so many game shows, soaps, and talk shows are gone forever, the most well-known example being "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," pre-1980.

[gymnastix]

@MJames2700 Actually, it was in films that Lauren Bacall gave her best performances. She was most ideally presented in the film noir productions of Howard Hawks. Bacall only achieved a stage career after many more years of work in films.

[gymnastix]

@johnyzero2000 Many of TV's earlier theatrical programs and specials (the early 1960s' "Hallmark Hall Of Fame" broadcasts, as well some of "Playhouse 90") were taped, once live television ceased being a standard for such programming.

Before that, live dramas were only saved by means of kinescopes (essentially, pointing a camera at a monitor to film the image), which gave a look across-between filmed and taped, but was less ideal.