My old musician friend Muddy Lips Rivers taught me all I know.
I once asked him what makes a Broadway hit.

He said don't start with art, talent or greatness!
Start with a demographic age group that has money to see something.

With that median age count back to the years they would have been 15-25.

With these years in mind , find a rock group in toothless decline or TV series / comedy to base a show.

Make a slick TV ad far superior the the actual show and drag the act city to city.

Old Muddy lips sure knew his shit.

What we have mostly today are revivals on top of re-revivals.

As long as you give it a slightly new twist you have a fair chance of success.

I just happen to have a modest example here...

"Airplanes and buildings and girls with explosives
Bull dozers dozing old houses with roses
Bethlehem burning as fire rains down
Peace loving people now litter the ground

When the bus blows
when free speech goes
when the press is blind

these are a few of the hideous things
when hatred is seen as fine."