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| Maybe too many big hits at once | |
| Posted by: mikem 07:01 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: Do we have too many shows running in a season? - Chazwaza 09:54 pm EDT 08/15/17 | |
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| This past season was unusual in that there were two smash hits -- Hello Dolly with Bette Midler and Dear Evan Hansen -- that, even before the Tonys, were essentially sold out for the next six months. So they have a strong premium sale/re-sale market that is sucking a lot of the dollars out of the marketplace. Add in Come from Away, which isn't an impossible ticket like the other two but still sold out every week, and all the dollars going to Hamilton, and there aren't a lot of dollars left for the tourist to see a second show. | |
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| If you build it, will they come? | |
| Posted by: Vectorbabe 06:46 pm EDT 08/17/17 | |
| In reply to: Maybe too many big hits at once - mikem 07:01 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| I don't feel we have gotten anywhere close to exhausting the audience for Broadway theatre. One of the reasons Hamilton is a mega-hit for Lin-Manuel Miranda is that he tapped into an audience of Broadway, rap, black protest, and civil rights people. The reason Hamilton has sold out the way it has isn't because so many Broadway people want to go. It's that there are so many outsiders who don't usually go to theatre, who want to go. Create a really strong, vibrant show that deals with the African American experience, and you will expand the audience figure with those who don't usually come to Broadway. I remember Purlie! bringing in bus loads of black women and men dressed in their finest Sunday church outfits. Create musicals that appear to the particular aspirations of girls 12 to 17 and you've got the start of a whole new category of "girl power" musicals. Wicked is the biggest hit, but there are others. And create something for the aging baby boomers and you'll see us pushing walkers up Broadway to make the curtain. (You might want to lower the curtain time to 6:30 so we don't have to stay up too late.) |
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| plus the tourist shows | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:25 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: Maybe too many big hits at once - mikem 07:01 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| Like the still running Phantom, Lion King, Chicago, Book of Mormon, Wicked, Kinky Boots, and revivals of Cats, Miss Saigon and Sunset Blvd to scratch the itch of big shows that returning audiences haven't seen (or haven't seen for a decade). | |
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| re: plus the tourist shows | |
| Posted by: writerkev 02:33 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: plus the tourist shows - Chazwaza 01:25 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| I agree with this point--perhaps not your larger one that there should be fewer shows--but "Sunset Boulevard" definitely isn't running any more. | |
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| re: plus the tourist shows | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:43 am EDT 08/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: plus the tourist shows - writerkev 02:33 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| Good! Though I must say, my point wasn't that there should be fewer shows... in fact I think I even said I'm not suggesting there should be, i was just wonderful if there were too many for the many running to succeed the way they might if there were less options in a given season. And While Sunset has closed, for the months it ran it surely took many ticket sales from other shows that people chose not to see so they could fill their slot or spend they money they had to spend on Sunset (in fact I bet some people didn't see 2 shows so they could pay for a pricier ticket to see Glen Close up close, which is what happened to me. For $120 ticket to that, that could have been 2-3 rush or discount tickets to other shows. |
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