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| SOME LIKE IT HOT audience reaction | |
| Last Edit: fabjim50 10:49 pm EST 12/17/22 | |
| Posted by: fabjim50 10:45 pm EST 12/17/22 | |
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| I haven't heard a roaring, laughing, applauding audience reaction in many years like I did to SOME LIKE IT HOT. The show is ridiculously entertaining and the audience I saw it with went nuts. And deservedly so - it's a well crafted, well composed and fabulously staged and acted old fashioned big Broadway musical. Having suffered through the insipid, stupid drivel that is "& Juliet" a few days earlier, this was a welcome change. The criticisms that the show is too "woke" by having Jerry/Daphne realize that he likes identifying as a woman - well, you'll have to complain to Billy Wilder about that, because it's in the film. The show just took it the next logical step that they couldn't go to in 1959. Besides, I think criticizing basically anything as too "woke" these days just exposes the bigotry of the one doing the criticizing. My 95 year old grandpa still mentions his surprise at how many black people are in commercials - he was raised in an era where there were no blacks on TV at all, except as maids or tap dancers. Times change. | |
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| re: SOME LIKE IT HOT audience reaction | |
| Last Edit: NewtonUK 08:31 am EST 12/18/22 | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 08:27 am EST 12/18/22 | |
| In reply to: SOME LIKE IT HOT audience reaction - fabjim50 10:45 pm EST 12/17/22 | |
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| It will be fascinating to see how this show fares at the box office. It hasn't broken even in any of its 6 preview weeks, and looking thru the houses thru the holidays, sales are very very weak still. The Friday night before New Year's sees less than half of orchestra sold - and virtually no seats at all sold in Mezzanine and Balcony. Looking ahead into January, the advance sales look marginally better. This will either build into or hit - or not. I think we have all heard a lot of mixed word of mouth, which is not necessarily a bad sign but not a good sign either. Time will tell. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - a play not a musical - was regularly grossing over $1.5 million. SOME LIKE IT HOT just broke $700,000 for the first time. | |
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| That $700k was opening week | |
| Posted by: dramedy 10:05 am EST 12/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: SOME LIKE IT HOT audience reaction - NewtonUK 08:27 am EST 12/18/22 | |
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| Where there are lots of comps and usually grosses are lower that week. But empty seats during holiday week is not good. | |
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| re: That $700k was opening week | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 11:23 am EST 12/18/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:21 am EST 12/18/22 | |
| In reply to: That $700k was opening week - dramedy 10:05 am EST 12/18/22 | |
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| I've posted in two other threads. The upstairs of the Shubert just isn't selling. Not Christmas - New Year's week, not into January. They are filling 2/3 of the orchestra, and both upper levels remain startlingly undersold. They could close the balcony easily* as Girl From the North Country opted to do (and the Side Show revival at the St. James). No one is buying those balcony seats, which is why they placed the TDF audience there this past week; where I landed (row B, on 48 hours notice). Sorry if I missed it, but what's the actual known break even? *Or rather than issue the "rush" $65 seats, just make the balcony affordable until the show is a hit. I mean, seriously affordable: $60/$50 for every performance. |
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| re: That $700k was opening week | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 11:31 am EST 12/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: That $700k was opening week - Delvino 11:21 am EST 12/18/22 | |
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| It probably needs to gross around $1.5 million to $2 million per week for a year in order to recoup. | |
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| re: That $700k was opening week: No secondary market | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 05:46 am EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: That $700k was opening week - BroadwayTonyJ 11:31 am EST 12/18/22 | |
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| What is interesting/discouraging is that pre-2020 a show with so many rave reviews would immediately have seen its tickets sold out for months to speculators on Stub Hub etc, That hasn't happened for this show - not a great sign, but not 'danger' yet. The issue they will have to manouevre, since sales arent strong over the holidays for SOME LIKE IT HOT, is how to get through January-February, traditionally slow times on Broadway, and then try to build going into the Tonys. Tye business of show has gotten very difficult once again. | |
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| re: That $700k was opening week: No secondary market | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 08:50 am EST 12/19/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 08:49 am EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: That $700k was opening week: No secondary market - NewtonUK 05:46 am EST 12/19/22 | |
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| "...a show with so many rave reviews would immediately have seen its tickets sold out for months to speculators on Stub Hub etc." This is such an important point that some of us without the business prism (or acumen) fail to grasp. In today's marketplace, hit shows develop a subsidiary sales tier. An ol' TDF dude, I'm oblivious, though I followed this somewhat during early Woods sales, and for a friend wanting to see Funny Girl with the new star. Here, clearly, a scan of the sea of orange seats on Telecharge reveals: the intermediaries did not step in. That hadn't even crossed my mind, and this factor is missing in our threads on the show's non-sales. |
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| Update: No TDF, yet Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon are 75% unsold. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:31 am EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: That $700k was opening week: No secondary market - Delvino 08:49 am EST 12/19/22 | |
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| For comparison's sake, this looks like Paradise Square, which didn't have this show's glowing reception, to state the obvious. I checked the first two performances this week and see that the show has sold only about 20% of its seats for the midweek matinee -- the orchestra is mostly unsold, upstairs, nada -- only about 25% for tomorrow night. Yet TDF has been resisted. There's just no interest in this piece of musical theater; its arrival in 2022 seems a strange miscalculation. Once again, admittedly a latecomer to the party, I'm stunned. |
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| re: Update: No TDF, yet Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon are 75% unsold. | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 10:06 am EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: Update: No TDF, yet Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon are 75% unsold. - Delvino 09:31 am EST 12/19/22 | |
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| It will be informative tomorrow, to see last week's grosses. Particularly did OHIO STATE MURDERS and SOME LIKE IT HOT See any significant uptick at all. Looking at January quicly, even HAMILTON and MOULIN ROUGE have tons of January availabiity. As does SIX. January looks like a truly challenging months even for the biggest of shows. | |
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| Update: back on TDF this week since performances are 75% unsold. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 11:08 am EST 12/20/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:07 am EST 12/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Update: No TDF, yet Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon are 75% unsold. - NewtonUK 10:06 am EST 12/19/22 | |
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| Three weekday performances are back on TDF. They seem to wait until the last minute, which in other seasons might make box office sense, but here -- holiday week, brutally undersold -- seems like self-sabotage. I'll be curious about last week, too, since at the Wednesday matinee I attended, the balcony was filled with TDF ticket holders. | |
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