We seem to have three things going on in the musical theater - shows based on rather current films, shows based on a song catalog, and shows by the hip Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, Jeanine Tesori, Ricky Ian Gordon, and La Chiusa. I don't care for the latter, I don't care for the jukebox stuff, and the shows based on current films range from fine to awful. And then we have the self-referential musical, which I abhor the most.
What we need is some serious musical theater written in the classic style - good book, good score, good solid production that's not about the sound and set and light cues. Shows like Most Happy Fella or even Bye Bye Birdie but for today - today's West Side Story, today's Gypsy, today's fill-in-the-blank.