| I had long known that Shenandoah had closed at a loss. But I have learned over the last few years that certain shows that I would have thought recouped didn't. For instance, All the Way Home, which I discussed a couple of days ago, didn't even come close. These have been primarily plays because I generally knew about the musicals, but there have been plenty of plays, even going pretty far back, that managed to run long enough that I would have expected them to pay off, but they kind of kept going for months, either barely getting by and thereby not making much profit (and sometimes then losing again what they'd made by running at a loss for periods of time) or doing pretty well for a while but not long enough to quite pay off. I meant to reply to the fairly recent Gemini thread to mention several things, including that it took around two years for it to pay off. |
