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| re: Dumb question, maybe, but can the market sustain 5+ 'kid' shows at any one time? | |
| Posted by: summertheater 04:33 pm EST 01/18/18 | |
| In reply to: Dumb question, maybe, but can the market sustain 5+ 'kid' shows at any one time? - GrumpyMorningBoy 04:00 pm EST 01/18/18 | |
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| Perhaps if they had weeknight 6pm or 6:30pm curtains for a kids show, they'd do better business. With subways shutting down at 9:30pm most nights, you need to be back on the train by 8:30pm now to get home in time (to avoid the dreaded "shuttle bus" or lengthy reroutes/backtracking). Mommy & Daddy don't want their kids to get home at 11:30pm since the show starts at 7, gets out 9:30pm, and it takes 2 hours to get home on the subway & shuttle bus. | |
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| re: You're nothing if not consistent. nm | |
| Posted by: SuzanneR 05:49 pm EST 01/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Dumb question, maybe, but can the market sustain 5+ 'kid' shows at any one time? - summertheater 04:33 pm EST 01/18/18 | |
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| re: You're nothing if not consistent. nm | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 11:17 am EST 01/23/18 | |
| In reply to: re: You're nothing if not consistent. nm - SuzanneR 05:49 pm EST 01/18/18 | |
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| I'm the first one to roll my eyes at summertheater's need for everything to be located on top of train stations and schedules to be co-ordinated with the trains and buses, but he/she may have a genuine point here. When your show is aimed at a family audience, who is taking their young kids to an expensive musical on a school night when the show is ending hours after bedtime? It's lose/lose. Either the kids are asleep through the second act and you've wasted a ton of money or the kids have stayed awake and will be exhausted the following day. The show has to be a REALLY special experience to risk that and I don't think the marketing team at SPONGEBOB is making that case. As I said in another post, the Disney shows are really the exception to that, but, at every Disney show I've ever seen, the young kids have trouble sitting through a 2.5-3 hour performance. A lot of kids sleep through second acts at Disney shows. I've seen it. A more family-friendly playing schedule might be just the thing for SPONGEBOB. |
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