| No reason why they can't include comps, although I would like it if they also included tickets that were actually sold. The point is that if someone uses percentage of capacity as a way of saying that a show is doing well — especially if, as I think is the case here, it's for opening week — it is not necessarily a reliable indicator. That's all. A show might fill every seat, but 50 percent or so might be comps, and most of the rest might be discounted. So if we read that it played to 100 percent and say that it must therefore be doing well, we would likely be wrong (unless the nut was very low). |
