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. |
