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| 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 - Chazwaza 01:25 pm EDT 08/16/17 |
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