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| Last Edit: ShowGoer 01:28 pm EST 03/07/22 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 01:26 pm EST 03/07/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I’m not so sure about that. - ryhog 12:19 pm EST 03/07/22 | |
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| Like I said, above, “I’m sure the run will sell out”. The runs were also sold out for the New York Theatre Workshop production of The Three Sisters (which never got to play a single performance; it hopes to come back in 2023, three years after the originally scheduled run), as well as the CSC Assassins (which had sold out long before Sondheim passed away, and which despite the fact that by all accounts it’s moving to Broadway, no one seems to think will do well there). Selling out a limited run at an off-Broadway theater isn’t that singular an achievement, I guess is what I’m getting at, especially if, as you yourself suggest, that run was mounted for the express purpose OF selling out by generating memberships. Neither in the case of the NYTW Three Sisters, or the CSC Assassins (or for that matter the Oscar Isaacs Public Theater Hamlet, or the Edie Falco-Blair Brown-Marin Ireland MTC Morning Sun from last fall, etc.) all of which sold out their entire runs, did a sell-out indicate a ‘frenzy’. (And in each of those cases, as discussed, turnback and cancellation tickets were available throughout the run for the savvy and/or diligent.) The Steve Martin/Robin Williams/Bill Irwin/F. Murray Abraham Waiting for Godot at Lincoln Center in 1988, or the Meryl Streep/Kevin Kline/Natalie Portman/Philip Seymour Hoffman/Christopher Walken/Marcia Gay Harden/John Goodman/Debra Monk The Seagull at Shakespeare in the Park in 2001, both directed by Mike Nichols? THOSE were frenzies. With this one, I guess depending on supporting cast and other factors, etc., it remains to be seen. But Radcliffe didn’t cause a stampede doing Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in London before the pandemic (tickets were readily available for matinees), so unlike larry13 and now ryhog, I don’t buy that the mere concept of Daniel Radcliffe in Merrily We Roll Along post-pandemic will automatically be the event of the season, and certainly not to the extent that those other all-star shows I cited were. That’s all I’m saying. |
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