| re: Brown's seventh Broadway outing | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:32 pm EST 12/25/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Brown's seventh Broadway outing - ryhog 07:33 pm EST 12/24/22 | |
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| Yes, I knew what i was saying. :) I think the fact that Brown became largely compelled by chasing potential financial success, rather than just what sang to him or that he felt passionately about has both impacted the work he can do for a show, and the shows he chose to do work on, and the time he has. I think being able to only take projects that you want to for the art of it is a different career than when you literally need to pay the bills, and the shows you already wrote don't bring you enough to do that consistently/forever without writing more that will. That being said, being independently wealthy or secure doesn't dictate talent or what one does with it -- some of our greatest artists and thinkers came from extraordinary privilege, and some of them came from extraordinary adversity, and the inverse too. In #1, i assume you mean that if a musical opens in the Beaumont and is a success, it will keep running rather than close at its schedule end date? Yes, that's true, and it's an incredibly unique situation to LCT and their set-up and their finances. Many good musicals have run at LCT, either in the Beaumont or the Mitzi that have not had life longer than a few months. But very few shows that opened at the Mitzi transfer to the Beaumont or to a Broadway house. And I think even insofar as they are reviewed and received has a lot to do with the way they are presented, as if to say "we decided this one wasn't for broadway", and the energy, the marketing, the reviews, the audiences, I think in many ways receive them that way more often than not. So we can never know if A New Brain or Dessa Rose or Bernarda Alba or A Man of No Importance or Sarafina or whatever would have been a hit or had a longer run/bigger response had they been put in the Beaumont and treated like a Broadway production. (this is true of plays too, but it's more common for a play to start there and move). Parade also didn't transfer, I thought, because of Garth's business issues... no? I don't think it was a clear cut "it ran its course, so no transfer". I think Parade will manage at least a 3 month run with Ben Platt. More than that I think depends on a lot of things, including the climate at the time, and if the reviews make it a "must-see" event. |
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