| re: This could well be the death of Encores. | |
| Posted by: Phaedrusnyc 02:53 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: This could well be the death of Encores. - ShowGoer 02:07 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| Agree with all your points; just trying to add some context. It goes back to my original question, though, of "why 'The Life'?" Why pick someone no one was hotly anticipating just to do a tear down on it? Why revive it at all if you think it's THAT problematic? Here's my GUESS: they decided to do "The Life" for the usual Encores reasons; they thought, "Billy Porter is a name, we should ask him!"; Billy Porter said, "Yeah, I'll do it, but ONLY if I can change it." Then they had the choice between saying, "Yes, that would be great!" or "No, absolutely not." And the second choice would then have left them with a very outspoken person who was just told "No" and would likely share that news with his public. If anything this may be a learning experience about making sure the person you're asking to work on something is someone who actually likes the thing he's being asked to work on. I think what the braintrust on this board has concluded (and I agree), is that threading this needle with something that has a long history and well-known name like Encores is going to be a major task, if not an unsolvable one. You want ticket sales for moribund properties AND you want to pretend that the people most likely to buy those tickets are not the ones who care about the unsung musicals of musical history and are going to be unhappy with the changes. Seems insane from a marketing perspective and it seems like, in hindsight, they should have made "Hey, Look Me Over" the swan song for "Encores" and announced a new theater series and called it whatever they wanted to. |
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