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| Whether you're pro or con, it's not going anywhere. | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 09:44 am EDT 04/09/21 | |
| In reply to: "The digital season" - jjbkvm 05:57 pm EDT 04/08/21 | |
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| There's no need to miss it, just as there's no need to ever watch a streamed play again if you don't want to. But as I've said before, streaming theatre and/or filmed productions are here to stay. It was already becoming more mainstream thanks to everything from BroadwayHD to National Theatre Live in Cinemas to the few things that Netflix filmed themselves like "Springstreen on Broadway" and "Oh Hello". But now that theatres have seen the outreach that 'streaming theater" can provide – thousands of people who've never heard of the Irish Rep or the Mint, for example, tuning in to see their shows from all over the world – it will increasingly be a part of the ecosystem in some way going forward. Like I say, no one who's sick of theater on a TV screen or computer monitor ever needs to tune in again, just as anyone who watched Hamilton or American Utopia live and saw them as quintessential in-person stage experiences needed to ever watch the filmed versions on Disney+ or HBO Max. But there are also people with disabilities, people growing older, people with social anxiety issues, etc., who will gladly pay to see these things at home. No doubt issues still need to be worked out, either in a blanket way with the U.S. unions or on a show-by-show theater-by-theater basis – and it'll obviously never "replace" live theater – but it's another tool in the toolbox that theatres and producers won't want to give up on so easily. |
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| I do wonder how profitable it would be. | |
| Posted by: dramedy 02:06 pm EDT 04/09/21 | |
| In reply to: Whether you're pro or con, it's not going anywhere. - ShowGoer 09:44 am EDT 04/09/21 | |
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| NTlive stats are all I’ve seen. In 2015 they spent £5.1m and earned £6m and 2016 spent £4.4m to earn £5.3m. I’m guessing the second number is actual profit but it could be the difference is actual profit which isn’t much for a worldwide distribution. And London film costs are £300 compared to US film cost of $2-4m. If those numbers are correct, then shows like bandstand and allegiance probably lost money in filming while London shows like 42nd street and Billy Elliot were profitable. It’s probably why American in Paris was filmed in London. So I don’t see a lot of change in broadway filming. But regional theaters cost are probably substantially less and might have less issues and exposure of subscription season might outweigh any loss in streaming. |
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