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I call to stage stars and found out today they will no longer be doing Karaoke CD+G only acc tracks..... oh well I will have to find my broadway somewhere else.

That's truly a bummer, they were one of my favorites.

ME too..but by is tone...he didnt sound like he even liked karaoke so it just goes to show there are karaoke haters out there...oh well

Maybe he was just a Broadway show tune hater. They probably came to realize that their sales didn't warrant the effort put into making that particular genre of music. I for one, won't miss it AT ALL and I think most singers would feel the same way. I love karaoke but I really don't like any Broadway music.

Bruce, He's talking about Stage Stars, ALL they make are showtunes. As far as singers hating showtunes, I don't have a night go by without a number of them being done. I've had nights where a good 30% or more of the songs sung were showtunes, it just depends on the night, and the fact that I have a larger showtune library than most of the KJ's in my area.

There will always be nights where a group of people who like show tunes all show up on the same night and even then, 30% isn't even a majority. I go to karaoke quite often and I've gone months without hearing a show tune and I've been to places where a couple of people would be there once in a blue moon and they would like Show Tunes I'm just saying that around here, the percentage of show tunes getting sung would probably be less than 3% on average. If my business was to make only show tunes, I would expand into Country , Pop ,and Classic Rock in hopes of building up more sales. I'm sure that more Show Tunes are sung in karaoke bars in a place like Manhattan, NY but I believe those places would be more of an exception and not the rule.

I’ve never been to a karaoke which plays some of the best 1970s Broadway musicals. That would be interesting. I have many favorites from that era like “Grease” and “Pippin”.