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| Posted by: jconnors 07:33 am EDT 06/21/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Slave Play transfer - Chazwaza 04:07 am EDT 06/21/19 | |
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| Or producers are looking to leverage the momentum of increasingly diverse audiences, overall general interest in plays, and the expanded public awareness of racial issues; equity; and social justice. | |
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| re: Slave Play transfer | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:29 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Slave Play transfer - jconnors 07:33 am EDT 06/21/19 | |
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| Your answer and mine are not at all mutually exclusive. OF COURSE they want and hope for that, but that isn't going to sell 800-1500 tickets at night at $100-175 a ticket. Also, I'm not sure how often you're seeing broadway productions... but I'm not so sure the audiences are getting THAT much more notably or rapidly diverse. I see probably about 20-30 broadway shows a year, plays and musicals, and I do not find this to be that true. I think off-broadway, yes. And certain things have been able to do it... but it's unlikely they will be able to sell a play like this on diverse and young tickets buyers and/or audiences interested in the subject alone... for a broadway run of any kind, especially a commercial run, that will have to be supplemented with a heavy dose of ticket buyers who might not otherwise think to go to this being convinced to because it is prestige or in trend or woke or must-see or whatever/all of the above. I would love if something like this could succeed on broadway with only diverse and younger audiences and people wanting to be actively engaged (rather than just buying a tickets and going to whatever they are "supposed" to see and like because a certain set deemed it the play of the moment, which is I'm sure what it'll be for plenty of people)... I just don't think that's true or possible or today's Broadway. |
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| re: Slave Play transfer | |
| Posted by: jconnors 07:46 pm EDT 06/23/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Slave Play transfer - Chazwaza 04:29 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
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| And I never intended my comment to be read by anyone as a take that was exclusive of yours. You presented one pathway to audience development, and I merely offered another.. No doubt aspects of both are under consideration. And FWIW, I see about 60 Broadway and off-Broadway shows a year. Diverse subject matter in my experience (and that alone) draws more diverse audiences. |
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| re: Slave Play transfer | |
| Posted by: ryhog 09:10 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Slave Play transfer - Chazwaza 04:29 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
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| Adding to your response... the interest in plays must be viewed against the backdrop of this season's dismal failures/ And yet we have Constitution which I would have bet would be in the scrap heap by now and instead is continuously impressing at the box office. This is the essence of Broadway: people love something, transfer it, and sometimes they are proved right and other times not. This is why people produce things we love to be skeptical about. |
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| re: Slave Play transfer | |
| Posted by: summertheater 10:04 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Slave Play transfer - ryhog 09:10 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
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| Constitution is in (what I believe is) the smallest Broadway theater, which reminds me of the size of a large off-Broadway theater. I wonder what would have happened if Constitution were in a much larger Broadway theater, like the Broadway Theater. | |
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| re: Slave Play transfer | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:57 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Slave Play transfer - summertheater 10:04 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
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| what if it were at Yankee Stadium? the answer to your rather weird wonderment is that it would likely have played to the same 4500 or so people it has played to most weeks. The difference is that the landlord would have been unlikely to have licensed the theatre to them. |
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| re: Slave Play transfer | |
| Posted by: Ann 10:27 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Slave Play transfer - summertheater 10:04 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
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| As a play, I don't think it would go in the Broadway. | |
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| re: Slave Play transfer | |
| Posted by: alvy_singer 10:07 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Slave Play transfer - Ann 10:27 am EDT 06/22/19 | |
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| I hope they did a LOT of re-writing if they think this show will work on Broadway. After this and "Daddy" I can't think of a more over-rated playwright of the past year. | |
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