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re: The Tired Businessman & Broadway Musicals

Posted by:	LegitOnce 10:15 pm EDT 03/30/14
In reply to:	The Tired Businessman & Broadway Musicals - pierce 05:13 pm EDT 03/30/14

But that "tired businessman" straight male demographic consisted largely of two groups: a) out-of-towners in the city for business (e.g., buyers) who were being entertained on company expense accounts; and b) middle-class husbands dragged to the theater by their wives before returning home to their residences on the Upper East or West Sides. (A subset of this second group would be men corralled into theater parties.) There are a lot fewer buyers and other business-related out-of-towners coming to the city these days, and those who do find that their hosts are not going to get away with expensing large blocks of theater tickets to the IRS. And those "tired businessmen" are now of both genders, which means the motivation of the little woman who wanted to get out of that classic six in the seventies mostly doesn't exist any more. (She's working late at her own job now, and she and hubby both face a shlep back to Park Slope or Hoboken after that 10 or 12 hour day.) The presence of heterosexual men at the theater was a function of a 40 hour work week, a Manhattan that supported a middle class, and the single-breadwinner household.

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