| re: Do we have too many shows running in a season? | |
| Posted by: summertheater 10:54 pm EDT 08/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Do we have too many shows running in a season? - Chazwaza 10:46 pm EDT 08/15/17 | |
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| Way too many. When you add in the off-Broadway & off-off-Broadway, even if you saw a show every day (with 2 shows on Wed, Sat, and Sun), you'd never possibly be able to see everything. Unfathomable how some off-Broadway theater companies can produce so many shows per season (Signature, Playwrights Horizons, etc). Many of which are of questionable quality. There's just no time to see that many shows. Then you have Roundabout and its many theaters plus its two "Black Box" shows per year, etc etc. People are complaining about Roundabout's quality on this board and have been cancelling their memberships to Roundabout. Maybe theaters should severely cut back on their offerings to put on a few quality shows that appeal to the general population. Much rather a theater company have 2 or 3 good shows per season, than 6 shows of which 4 are crap. People who work, who have families, who have limited incomes, can only see "X" amount of shows per year. That's just a finite number. Theater companies like Roundabout or Playwrights Horizons can program 50 shows a year if they want to. But "X" is still a finite number for most people. And paying audiences will only see the same "X" per year, since they only have a finite amount of money and time. |
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