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each show is funded differently

Posted by:	dramedy 12:08 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to:	re: How does a show continue to run when very little is taken in at the box office? - charles1055 11:37 am EDT 05/07/15

But most shows have a budget for losing weeks , like a reserve of $1m for musicals. So if a show is under the weekly costs, which can vary on advertising and other expenditures, they draw from that. But many times it might be only $50k or a little more under, so that reserve can last a while. If a show is losing a few hundred thou a week like honeymoon or zhivago, then that reserve can go quickly. In gentlemans guide, they got a loan to continue going during the slow weeks and honeymoon probsbly did the same. I think the investors don't have much say in closing, it's the producers decision. And when it does, any reserves or unspent money will go back to investors.

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