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If there was an answer to your question
Posted by: dramedy 07:06 pm EDT 07/05/17
In reply to: What are the ingredients that turn a smash hit into a long running hit? - broadwaybacker 05:50 pm EDT 07/05/17

Then there would not be any flops. For super long runs, it does have to cross over to tourist trade and probably not too american cliché (as in local references and jokes that just dont translate well) so foreigners will get it. Phantom is amazing how it still brings in $1M/wk almost all year.

so i dont think hansen will be around for more than a few years, which is a respectable run. As for hamilton, i dont understand the hype at all but clearly it will play a decade.
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re: If there was an answer to your question
Posted by: broadwaybacker 07:19 pm EDT 07/05/17
In reply to: If there was an answer to your question - dramedy 07:06 pm EDT 07/05/17

I don't think that's necessarily correct. What you're saying applies to what I called smash hits, and obviously, there is no one recipe for those, because if there were you'd be right--there wouldn't be any flops. But the question is what turns those hits into the very long running hits. I do agree that they can't be, as you say, "too American" which is a good insight. Except for Hamilton. 😊 Can't get too much more American than that.
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