Profile for Kad

The thing about the "it's niche" argument with Jellicle Ball is that it implies people haven't been going, which is objectively not the case. Its attendance has actually been pretty darn good with an average of 93.04% capacity for the 18 weeks it has run thus far. So people have very much been attending and in pretty strong numbers. The issue is that, despite those strong attendance numbers, it has still been unable to break even, which suggests either a ceiling on how much people have been w...

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "No, it's not, but until some sense can made of both the weekly operating costs and the capitalizations, we're going to continue having these problems. And placing blame on ONLY the theatre owners or ONLY the unions is a misread of the situation.."That's kind of the strange thing here for me: for all the discussion of costs going up, I have never seen a comprehensive breakdown of costs in any reporting. Which costs, and by how much? Nobody seems willing to say ex...

I do think something has to got to give here and there is certainly blame to go all around: the cartel of theater owners controlling the venues and taking their cut from everybody who walks into their buildings; marketing firms that feel homogeneous and like they chase trends rather than innovate; producers who seem more interested in raising their own profiles than developing successful projects; actors who don't seem to understand how their own industry operates but are nevertheless outspok...

EDSOSLO858 said: "What an exceptional career he's had. He will have spent 23 years at the Public.I have a feeling Saheem Ali ends up succeeding him."Ali certainly seems like he's being groomed to take over and has institutional knowledge, which is a plus, but I find him to be a rather uninteresting choice with an incredibly spotty artistic record. (I was also surprised, when I was at the Public on Monday, to find that they are renovating the lobby again).

Per a video on the Public's IG, Eustis will be retiring from his role as artistic director when his current contract ends at the end of July in two years. A pretty significant change to the nonprofit theater landscape.

While I like the concept, I find it to be almost understated considering the actual material.

TexanAddams18 said: "Literally nothing wants/can afford the Majestic right now. They just announced a developmental workshop of Purple Rain for the fall and its never a good sign to go from OOT back to a workshop so I think we're still plenty far away from seeing it in NYC"They replaced both Lileana Blain-Cruz as director and Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins as bookwriter with Saheem Ali and Peter Duchan, respectively, so it is unsurprising they are back to workshops. The show as it was in Detroit func...

Things like this may not lead to anything but also do not at all hurt, so I don't see any issue. And fwiw, I've heard that popular support of the production at PAC is what persuaded ALW to support it and endorse a transfer in the first place.

The thing is, I don't think Valentina will be getting many people to buy tickets. She is not a big draw, has always been limited in terms of her skill set, and was never really able to capitalize on her extremely memorable initial run on Drag Race 9 years ago (because what made it memorable was not anything that you'd want to buy a ticket for). So it's kind of weird they went with her. Even if they were sourcing solely from Drag Race contestants, there are plenty of other, more capable perfor...

Even if she is doing her own makeup, there is no way she- or any performer- will be permitted to leisurely get ready and risk delaying curtain. This isn't a drag show where there is little to no oversight or penalty to being late. Performers who are late or unready face consequences.

CoffeeBreak said: "It’s already selling quite well.First preview is sold out."The first preview is sold out but... the rest of the first few weeks of performances are decidedly not, sometimes not even close. Mezz in particular seems to be pretty empty at every performance, even performances in which the balcony appears sold out. The balcony, in fact, looks completely unavailable for most weeknight performances, which seems like a strategy to force sales of higher priced tickets.

There seems to be an issue with time stamps on posts. Some seem to be attributed to later times or different time zones, keeping older posts at the top of the board.After I posted this, two older posts remain at the top despite my post here being the most recent. Edit: this seems to be fixed, thanks!

Per the show's social media, it looks like Valentina actually went on tonight. Abrupt departures and now surprise debuts- so weird.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "The few (literally four) €79 dollar seats left for the date that I'm l'm looking at, six months from now, suck."It's not a big space. It is unlikely there are any truly bad seats.

mlledir said: "THANK YOU FOOR CREATING THIS TOPIC.We are all here because we love theatre (Broadway) so much that we talk about it on our off-time. A lot. Yet it is quite obvious the model is VERY broken I think about this constantly and thus far, the best, most thorough analysis of it is being done on Substack by Jared Harbour.Here is his most recent post, discussing how monopolistic (?) the industry is:Inbreeding Depressionopen.substack.comIt's worth reading in full because it's such a mult...

DCS said: "Kad said: "I think Circle really would have best suited the production, but alas."But with the large cast and high weekly running costs on CATS, would the smaller Circle in the Square given them enough seats to sell to actually make their weekly nut? 1186 vs 840 seats is quite a difference... sometimes a smaller venue doesn't work from an economic standpoint for a musical like this."It would have, in theory, created sold-out houses, leading to higher demand and higher ticket prices.

ACL2006 said: "Kad said: "ACL2006 said: "Meg is out for both shows."Cmon, ACL, you should at the very least acknowledge you pushed an untrue rumor here."But she's out still and the rumor came via Reddit"She is sick with bronchitis and the rumor came here via you.

ACL2006 said: "Meg is out for both shows."Cmon, ACL, you should at the very least acknowledge you pushed an untrue rumor here.

The "classics rule" isn't always clear when it comes to more modern works. How is Between Riverside and Crazy, which won a Pulitzer in 2014, had a run at the Atlantic, and had quite a number of subsequent unique productions around the country, a new play in 2022, but Eureka Day, a play from 2018, which only had a month-long off-off Broadway production in 2019 and had fewer subsequent productions, a revival in 2025? The rule is obvious when it comes to things like Shakespeare or very establish...

I think Circle really would have best suited the production, but alas.