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whatever2 said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I think any type of theatre majority-funded by the government could be disastrous from an artistic angle. Everything would be hyperscrutinized. There'd be protests about everything from "wokeness" to trans characters to Critical Race Theory/slavery to sexual content & language.

Personality and uniqueness would be shaved down and the result would be boringly safe works.

The most generous o

JSquared2 said: "Ensemble1671017357 said: "Matt Rogers said: "Just a heads up that the above link sends you to the NY Post, just in case you, like me, don’t care to give that right wing rag any hits."



The NYPost article reports on reasons for the undeniable drop in attendance, revenue and longevity using surveys and interviews. Why would anyone not be interested in reading what they have to say to see if it makes sense - unless

Gesualdo said: "I am really perplexed that the musical Harmony is not achieving a higher %CAP than its current statistics here on Broadway World. Does anyone have some insights on this situation?

Thank you."

What role does intimidation of a significant audience for this show play?  

Headline: Massive pro-Palestine protests erupt in New York City: HUNDREDS of demonstrators try to force their way into the World Trade Center as Times Squ

rattleNwoolypenguin said: "Well you make the world of broadway only financially viable to the wealthy upper class white ticket buyer as the primary audience member, then you are suddenly only catering to them every time and you run the risk they are gonna decide that they can't immediately relate to it and not put their money towards it.

Broadway said "let's be more diverse" but then changed nothing about how expensive broadway is at all. That's what&

The Distinctive Baritone said: "There is both a major generational shift and a major racial/cultural shift in the American theatre right now. I’m no longer a Chicago Tribune subscriber so I can’t read the article, but I lived and worked in Chicago for several years and have been keeping up with the theatre news there pretty steadily. A well-respected Black theatre director (who I actually went to school with) had his career effectively ended a few days ago when multiple w

Jarethan said: "scripps said: "BTTF needs to drop the Wednesday matinee and move to a more family friendly 4 show weekend schedule during off-peak tourist season. It has been theorized that their breakeven is 1 million so they are beginning to tread water leading up to the holiday season which I'm sure will be gangbusters. I am surprised however that the weather on Friday is not reflected more in last week's grosses, I know I didn't go outside!"

I guess that anything s

Kad said: "Theater3232 said: "Grosses show last week 97% capacity, yet at $44.51 per ticket, and $165,345 gross. It was the worst-performing show last week (in terms of average price per ticket and dollar gross). Obviously demand is not there and this is will be a money loser for MTC. I guess if they gave out comp tickets to most of the house, they could theoretically be "sold out". I'd be curious, Also, Show-score is appallingly charging $20 for comp tickets f

JSquared2 said: "What it boils down to is that many of the NFP artistic directors and their staffs listened to the loud and vocal minority (mostly those on social media who don't buy tickets anyway) and believed that the world had changed overnight and therefore their programming had to reflect those changes. They programmed their seasons in order to try and appease the "social justice warriors" but instead wound up alienating their core audience --- who had no problem

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "She'd be great! Let's take with a tiny grain of salt since those being called back may not be the only ones considered for Sally.

If she does get cast, I pity the social team for the show because everything Dylan does now is so disgustingly picked apart by the Right. May they forget about her (or stop caring about the non-controversy) quickly."

And, of course, we can easily ignore all the people on the right. Eh, Bud