| ROCKY - An Alternate View | |
| Posted by: | enoch10 03:32 am EDT 03/15/14 |
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| ok, i'm usually the first person to complain about people pontificating on shows they haven't seen but what i'm about to say doesn't really require seeing it. so, three big disclaimers first: 1. i haven't seen the show 2. i have no insight into the financial situations of the investors, what they have or what they're willing to spend and maybe most important of all, 3. i don 't know how much it costs to run. but, unless i am misreading things, which is certainly possible, there seems to be this just accepted idea that ROCKY is a flop. i'm not sure i buy that. did anybody really expect ROCKY to get glowing reviews from critics? it's ROCKY. it's based on a pretty middlebrow property. i don't remember any critical acclaim for the film either though to be honest i wasn't paying that much attention. are a huge segment of the people likely to be attracted to this title folks who would know or care about reviews? (obviously there are people interested in the title who care about reviews but i'm not talking about them.) as far as reviews go they weren't universally bad. you got a couple of good ones from respected sources with pull quotes to die for. what greater contributions could critics make to this? but the biggest factor of all is - it's the middle of march. the tourists will be here in a couple of weeks with the tonys not that far behind. lots and i do believe lots of tourists are going to know this title and like it. women buy most tickets. i can see women, especially tourists, buying tickets thinking this might be a musical their husbands would enjoy. they'll see it as a win/win. they get to see a musical, he gets to see ROCKY. (just play along with the gender stereotyping for the sake of argument.) it's too soon to count this musical out. again, i guess it all depends on how much it costs to run but it's not like they aren't selling any tickets. if they can hold on until the tourists get here and can get themselves on the tony broadcast couldn't this musical find it's audience? if it did - hows that for a victory for the underdog story. | |
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