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re: Bravo producers of Inishmaan!

Posted by: ryhog 01:32 am EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: Bravo producers of Inishmaan! - Chazwaza 11:23 pm EDT 03/13/14

Here is where the bread analogy breaks down: there are lots and lots of opportunities to see theatre for less than the budget-busting price of the most highly-priced shows (shows, I might add, that were designed to make money and for no other reason). If you want to fight for public funding of the arts, I will stand with you; if you want to fight for fair wages and benefits for Walmart employees, I will stand with you. Bring Harry Potter back to Broadway to do a play no one is pining to see because some producers think they can make a fast buck? You're on your own. Fair price for a fair product? The market determines that. What is right in the pricing of luxury goods does not factor into what is fair. Ask Paul Krugman. Ask Milton Friedman. You'll get the same answer.

I think this is important not so much as a defense of capitalism but as a challenge to the idea of equating theatre and Broadway. Broadway is a luxury entertainment destination that the less affluent can (by making an effort such as the one you describe enjoy sometimes); theatre in New York is a lot more and a lot better than that. Go see Hand to God; it's a much more fulfilling way to spend an evening than Inishmaan.


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re: Bravo producers of Inishmaan!

Posted by: Chazwaza 12:38 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: Bravo producers of Inishmaan! - ryhog 01:32 am EDT 03/14/14

I'm sorry but I do not think it as simple as Broadway theater being designed to make money and for no other reason. It's just not true.


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re: Bravo producers of Inishmaan!

Posted by: ryhog 01:06 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: Bravo producers of Inishmaan! - Chazwaza 12:38 pm EDT 03/14/14

well there are certain productions in which producers decide to spend their money in the fact of improbable odds of making money, but commercial Broadway is (as its name clues you in) about making money. You can live in denial of that, but it really doesn't aid in understanding Broadway. And whatever you might think is not true in general, surely you could not seriously think there is a noncommercial reason Inishmaan with Radcliffe is being produced on Broadway in the spring of 2014.


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