I think they have to balance seasons. We'd all love seasons of the very obscure stuff, but that's a recipe for them to run such high deficits that they can't go on. Next season actually is the kind of season many of us say we want them to do. And by the time they do Call Me Madam, it will have been 24 years since they last did it. I suspect they've got a big star interested in CMM, but maybe i'm wrong. I'm a bit sorry that they've once again bypassed any of the older operettas, but overall I think we've got to remember they've got a big theater and a lot of performers and musicians to pay and so of course they've got to program some stuff that will sell tickets.
I'd love a season of Reuben Reuben, Sandhog and Lolita, My Love but that's a recipe for the end of Encores! If I had tens of millions of dollars, I'd finance a company to do such things. |
