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I'm being logged out... but only on certain pages of certain threads. If I move to a different page, I'm fine. Right now, it's affecting the last page of the Lost Boys previews thread. It's happening both on desktop on Firebox and mobile on Safari. 

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54 Below and Green Room 42, honestly. The Laurie Beechman has also been around but the vibe there is.. kind of all over the place, really. Joe's still gets some Broadway performers but even then it's typically with some kind of alt angle. 

This seems like at most a semi-professional / educational production that gives neurodivergent and disabled performers of various experience levels an opportunity they likely would not have otherwise. And it’s running for ten days. I think we can cut them slack. 

There's no actual lighting up or smoke in the production, at least not at one of the first performances I attended. 

Hopefully that sweetheart deal that the Trump DoJ secretly reached will be tossed out. 

The composers are out there, believe me. Their works are not being produced at the Broadway level. They're getting degrees and winning awards and grants and then not having work produced. 

(and Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, although not "names," have been out and working in NYC for a while) 

And that's the issue with the star-driven limited run model that's being championed by Seaview and other producers: these things can't really make much, if any, profit. They might get an award and they may break even. Rudin embraced that model, but he also had shows like Book of Mormon. Seaview and the other younger producers just are no good at developing new hit musicals, at least not yet. 

Patti LuPone FANatic said: "Question: I have sometimes wondered if concessions and merchandise figures in into the weekly grosses. Just curious...."

They're not- it's purely ticketing. 

They're usually $20-30, depending on the production. 

sinister teashop said: "They smell a winner as political anti corruption theatre especially if they get to subpoena the former head of the Kennedy Center that LiveNation installed on its Board to get Trump to drop the case against them."

Hatred of LiveNation is one of the last bipartisan agreements. 

EDSOSLO858 said: "Does this really make much of a difference? It probably just means that musicals lose $3 million less."

$3 million is nothing to sneeze at when budgets are tight. If a show is consistently falling short of its weekly expenses during previews by $400k - that $3mil credit will be very welcome. 

EDSOSLO858 said: "Kad - we may very well be heading back to the mid-'90s in terms of lighter Broadway seasons. The only question ishowlight the coming seasons will be."

Yes, we may well be- but my point is Broadway has had these periods and rebounded. It is far too early to fret about Broadway's viability. 

I’ve been backstage at 54… it could, uh, definitely use improvements. 

Although this season is very grim, it’s following a season that was pretty darn successful. And although this season is extremely thin, it’s nothing compared to some of the seasons in the mid-80s or especially the mid-90s. We’ve gotten used to the seasons of the 2000s-10s, which may very well be looked back on as a second Broadway Golden Age. 

Honestly, I am not sure this is a year in which a Best Musical win will move the needle substantially for any show.   

FLarnhill said: "You'll notice Lin cast mostly PoC here.

I'm sure people will accept this without raging out..."

...Nobody even commented on this before you. The original off-Broadway cast was also largely POC, anyway.