Don't they get a clue? If a show starts 8pm and ends 10:30pm, NOBODY wants to get home after midnight on a school night. Trains shut down and get replaced by shuttle buses at 9:30pm these days now. Look at the Queens Blvd mess all this week and next week - if you're not on the E/F/R train by 8:30pm, you're screwed getting home.
It's funny how the Saturday matinee at 2pm is selling great and almost sold out. That way people can get home at a reasonable time.
These shows really should start at 6:30pm these days (and 7pm at the absolute latest). Are theater people not able to wake up at 6am and 7am like the rest of us working people, to start their rehearsals, so they can finish in time to play a 6:30pm or 7pm curtain?
Well the customers are voting with their feet and they're refusing to buy tickets to 8pm shows. Good for them. |
