I absolutely understand what you're saying, but the distinction, in this particular case, between "Broadway" and "off-Broadway" is mainly contractual, right?
This is the same production that played the Lyceum, just moved to a theatre that has one seat less than is contractually required to count as Broadway, and which is in the theatre district, closer to Times Square than some Broadway theatres.
I'm not saying that the distinction between "Broadway" and "off-Broadway" is irrelevant in every case or in most cases, but I don't think that general audiences, who aren't attuned to the minutiae of the business are going to perceive much more difference here than, say, if the play had moved from the Lyceum to the Helen Hayes Theatre.
Was the production significantly altered in the transfer? Are off-Broadway audiences getting a substantially different experience than Broadway audiences for this play did? |
