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| It's a very uninformed article nmi | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:06 am EDT 08/15/21 | |
| In reply to: Here’s what CNBC is saying about B’way economics (incl. Pass Over) - MockingbirdGirl 07:59 am EDT 08/15/21 | |
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| Posted by: NewtonUK 06:58 pm EDT 08/15/21 | |
| In reply to: It's a very uninformed article nmi - ryhog 11:06 am EDT 08/15/21 | |
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| ... we must be careful. But there are many chicken littles writing newspaper articles. | |
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| How so?… | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 02:25 pm EDT 08/15/21 | |
| In reply to: It's a very uninformed article nmi - ryhog 11:06 am EDT 08/15/21 | |
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| (…apart from the fact that, as I believe has been well-documented here, you’ve repeatedly said you don’t believe that streaming has much of a place in the future of any commercial theatre production model, and that you don’t think many producers, theaters, and producing organizations are interested in it, despite how many keep speaking up and stating the contrary.) | |
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| re: How so?… | |
| Posted by: ryhog 05:10 pm EDT 08/15/21 | |
| In reply to: How so?… - ShowGoer 02:25 pm EDT 08/15/21 | |
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| My observation had nothing to do with streaming issues. The most glaring error is that the writer based their analysis of ticket "availability" on the secondary market that has, as an example, lots of tickets available at outrageous prices, just as it did pre-covid. That is not a metric of how sales are going and anyone with even a passing familiarity with Broadway (including most people here) would know that. Also, the principal interview for the article is a person who has no meaningful connection to Broadway in the present tense, and certainly not to its business. The main source is a person with his own opinions, but not expertise to justify basing an article on any more than anyone who posts here regularly. (And no offense to anyone here.) The London connection is tenuous and also misunderstood but I am not even going to go there beyond saying it is, as I think everyone here knows, apples and oranges. I stand by my characterization of the piece as ill-informed. Let me also just point out that, if you read what I have written here in other threads, you'd discover that I am not someone painting a rosy picture of Broadway's prospects this season, in light of some of the choices that have been made that I believe result in an oversupply situation. But that does not mean that I am going to agree with an article written by an ignoramus. PS I also stand by what I have said previously about streaming, something I expect to recede even from its limited presence once this pandemic ends. |
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| Streaming. | |
| Posted by: dramedy 11:03 am EDT 08/16/21 | |
| In reply to: re: How so?… - ryhog 05:10 pm EDT 08/15/21 | |
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| The link didn’t work for me but I assume the author stated that steaming is here to stay. I agree with you that it isn’t. Last year this time I was watching 2-3 shows a week and was being selective. I see only a 3 a month and that isn’t even being selective. Plus this fall, I see very few local theaters offering streaming with live performance. I think it was a good run during covid but doesn’t seem to be that successful. The zoom events show the number of people logged in and it is usually in the hundreds. There are probably more than one watching in a number of users but that is only 1 performance for many theaters. Not really sustainable financially once costs of filming are considered. | |
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| re: Streaming. | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:10 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
| In reply to: Streaming. - dramedy 11:03 am EDT 08/16/21 | |
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| agree however my comments about streaming were in reaction to the post and in the context of Broadway. The post suggested that I was wrong that producers are not flocking to streaming. I get that there are folks eager for all Broadway shows to be streamed, but that has not happened and I believe that the experiments of the Fall of 2021 will put the kibosh on notions of its economic viability. Your perspective is interesting because you were certainly an eager consumer over the last 18 months. | |
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| On this site there is little discussion on streamed events | |
| Posted by: dramedy 12:55 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Streaming. - ryhog 12:10 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
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| This is a theater site and there are very few posts on any streaming events. And some streaming last for days and are of highest quality like Hershey fielders shows and Irish rep. So it’s not like it’s one time shot and if missed there’s no point in posting. Play per view get nothing and there’s are up for 3 days. When I post I rarely get a response. Even LCT had only a few comments on the wolves and Mary seacole. If this site can’t get excited about streaming when there is no live theater, there is little chance when live theater is back. | |
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| re: On this site there is little discussion on streamed events | |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:42 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
| In reply to: On this site there is little discussion on streamed events - dramedy 12:55 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
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| My sense, and it may be projecting my own situation, is that people were interested in streaming for a while, until say June '20, and then started to lose interest. Ironically that's when some of the streaming stuff started to get more organized. To my recollection, Michael Urie's zoom show was the heyday of streaming. | |
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| I agree | |
| Posted by: dramedy 01:51 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
| In reply to: re: On this site there is little discussion on streamed events - ryhog 01:42 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
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| Early stuff turned viewers off when stuff improved. I suspect a good number of people on this site get comp tickets to a lot of live theater so playing for streaming doesn’t make sense to them. |
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