| re: Multiple reviews questioned how the show even got produced | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 12:45 am EST 01/05/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:30 am EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: Multiple reviews questioned how the show even got produced - Singapore/Fling 11:53 pm EST 01/04/22 | |
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| I tend not to post about current shows, but I saw it late in previews and I would have absolutely encouraged you to go. And unless my memory is wrong (it hasn't been that long), the $30 loge tickets i bought on TodayTix were absolutely being sold that way on the app before the reviews came out. I mean, I don't know when they came out but I saw it the saturday before it opened, and I bought tickets to it a few days before that. I don't think reviews come out the week before opening. But part of the obligation of a non-profit is that they program based on the cultural enrichment of the "community" or scene as it were, and that they make tickets available for the run of that season's shows to all people. It's one of the things LCT prides itself on. So it seems unlikely and bonkers to me that if a show isn't selling well (for its, what, 12 week scheduled run as part of the non-profit season) or reviews are bad, that they'd just close it early and stop making the show they decided was artistically worth developing and producing for the audience (and with government arts endowment funding, etc) that has yet to have the chance to see it. Seems like their obligation and very much their prerogative to have the show run its scheduled run. Even if they're losing money running it, that's why it's non-profit. I hope they didn't close it early because of poor sales or bad reviews. I also love the recording of Women On the Verge... I didn't get to see that show. Many LCT shows people assume were flops because they had "short" runs doing only their limited but normally-scheduled runs... shows I love and am so glad got produced on that level and that I got to see, like Parade, The Frogs (well I didn't love this but I'm glad it happened), Marie Christine, and even at the Mitzi like Dessa Rose, and A Man of No Importance (and some I didn't care for like Happiness and The Glorious Ones, which were mercifully in the Mitzi). I mean, has LCT ever produced a new musical in the Vivian B that was a hit besides Piazza? I'm not gonna count Contact because I don't really consider a musical or something that has the same hurdles as a selling a new musical (different hurdles, but not comparable). The Frogs can maybe be considered new, and it was a hit in the sense that it extended past its original run, but only by a week from what I'm guessing based on the # of performances. Looking at the Vivian's ibdb page, it seems that it has not. |
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