As with other struggling shows, it's both the reviews AND Covid, but Flying's soft ticket sales were notable even before the first performance. It is usually extremely hard to get a decent seat for an LCT preview, because the many members snatch up all the preview tickets on the first day of member sales. It often feels like they are all gone in the first two hours. (Preview tickets are cheaper than regular tickets to members.) But surprisingly few member tickets were sold on that first day, and it's not as if the members bought the tickets on a future date, either. Sales were markedly different than pre-pandemic.
Roundabout also has a lot better availability than one would have seen pre-pandemic.
Flying is not a show with a lot of teen appeal, and the older theatergoer is still understandably hesitant. If Covid hadn't happened, I think Flying would have finished its regular run. |
