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| re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a bit hit for The Met | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 12:55 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
| In reply to: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a bit hit for The Met - Singapore/Fling 12:17 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
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| Well - tonight there are almost 100 avail in the orchestra tonight, 43 in the parterre, around 80 in the Grand Tier. Family Circle and Balcony always sell out first if there is any buzz, as they are the cheapest. And this morning all of the standing room places were on sale. Next Wednesday there are 128 in the orchestra available, 41 in parterre, 95 in the grand tier, 6 in dress circle. Selling very well though. It seems to be like the WIlliam Kentridge production of THE NOSE = the cognoscenti and art world went crazy and filled all the seats - then they brought it back and played to crickets. I think a remount will sell less well - the opera is of the moment, and after the reviews everyone has to see it. I could be wrong and it will rival LA BOHEME for sales for years to come - but I dont think so. It's an important opera for the Met to have produced, and all are rallying around it. And its a NY audience. A staple like the glitzy TURANDOT production will be playing to crickets - its a tourist draw. When buzzy new productions return to the Met - usually - the audience is much smaller - as these are never works that the tourist mobs want to see. |
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| re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 01:45 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:42 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a bit hit for The Met - NewtonUK 12:55 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
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| I don't know what website you're looking at, but your numbers for tonight in the orchestra and the Grand Tier are inflated by about a third. God, I wish they had 100 seats in the orchestra, maybe they would have sold some of them as rush today. And yes, we can only talk about the production in its first run. Though if we do want to speculate about future productions, right now we'd do better to measure this opera against "Porgy and Bess", which was the runaway hit of last season. |
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| re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met: Tix tonight | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 03:39 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met - Singapore/Fling 01:42 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
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| At the moment (3.33p)\ 62 orchestra seats still available 42 Parterre 65 Grand Tier 3 Balcony. They only do lottery tix when the sides of the house have a lot of availability - not for scattered better seats .... Porgy and Bess is a major score, with tons of 'hit tunes' - a national treasure of a work. FIRE SHUT UP is an interesting work, capturing the zeitgeist, but its hard to see it entering the standard repertoire. Like Porgy (which has great trouble being done in opera houses around the world), the all black cast raises large economic issues. Even the most diverse opera company in America would have only about 10-15% of its chorus as African American artists. The majority of the chorus, and small roles usually played by company members, would need to be overhires just for producing PORGY or FIRE. Many opera companies would like to schedule Porgy, but the economics are hugely daunting for most. Even for the Met, reviving FIRE SHUT UP will always be an expensive proposition - which I am sure they can find donors to cover - but not a small thing. |
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| re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met: Tix tonight | |
| Posted by: Ordoc 04:18 am EDT 10/09/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met: Tix tonight - NewtonUK 03:39 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
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| You are damning Porgy and Bess with faint praise. As for the standard repertoire, it's the same old same old done over and over and over. | |
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| re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met: Tix tonight | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 04:49 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met: Tix tonight - NewtonUK 03:39 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
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| Yes, they do only do rush seats when they have seats to sell... and this is the first time I've not been able to get a rush ticket, so what does that tell us about this show relative to other shows? There were also, as you note, less than 200 seats available in the entire 3,850 seat house as of an hour ago, which means - if my math is correct - they were at 99.5% capacity. How many shows hit that mark? When I've gone to The Met, I've seen many, many more empty seats. So, I don't entirely know what point you are trying to make by pulling a SummerTheater and obsessively counting available seats, but by any metric, this would seem to a show that is selling very well for them. But sure, go on denying that this has been a successful run and throw up hypothetical road blocks for why this and other Black-sung operas are uncommon and, it seems from your general tone, should remain so. |
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| re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met: Tix tonight | |
| Posted by: Ordoc 04:20 am EDT 10/09/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met: Tix tonight - Singapore/Fling 04:49 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
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| What is a Black-sung opera? | |
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| This is (I think) the correct math | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 11:01 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Fire Shut up in My Bones" looks like a big hit for The Met: Tix tonight - Singapore/Fling 04:49 pm EDT 10/08/21 | |
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| I asked Google, because that math was looking screwy, even to my number-impaired brain... this is about 95% sold as of 3:30. | |
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