| re: *not even just at the Vivian, but any new musical on broadway | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 02:49 am EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: *not even just at the Vivian, but any new musical on broadway - Chazwaza 01:33 am EST 01/05/22 | |
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| I would count Contact as a new musical before I would count The Frogs, which in any event won the Best Musical Tony Award. If we're looking at just the Beaumont, they've produced six (seven if you want to count The Frogs, and I am not counting Juan Darien, which was technically a revival) new musicals, and two of them have been hits, which is not a bad track record, especially considering that they are open to producing some of the more idiosyncratic work of the past twenty-five years... but also, as you point out, they've begun chasing the hits of those Bart Sher revivals. They might not have had great artistic reasons to do "King and I" or "My Fair Lady", but they absolutely had financial reasons, and I'm sure they're hard at work searching for another revival of that caliber. In terms of "Flying over Sunset", they gave it a go, but there just isn't an audience for it. They'd keep running it through the original dates if people wanted to see it, but look at their availability for the next two weeks: right now, they've sold maybe 30% of that theater. On a good day, the Orchestra is 2/3 full and the Loge is 1/5 full; on a bad day, the Orchestra is 1/3 full and the Loge is veritably empty (as in, they seem to have sold ten seats empty... on a Friday night). Even for a non-profit, those numbers are tough. |
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