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Broadway needs to change. Some productions don’t have understudies/swings join the rehearsal room until right before tech. 
 

Pre-Covid, “the show must go on” was the mentality and you would be hard pressed to find 5 news articles in 5 seasons where a performance of any kind was cancelled. Since actors are more comfortable calling out and resulting a show cancelled, it’s the productions responsibility to have a contingency. 
 

This production has been signed & and in the works since this time last year. There is no excuse for not being off book. 

I am so curious where the money comes from for producers. I know they produce “hits”, but is the profit from the Lortel shows and recouped Stereophonic enough to finance this?

No one will ever be able to convince me the producers handled this week correctly. I feel so bad for the thousands of audience members who had their Christmas week ruined because they didn’t cancel these performances on Monday when they KNEW this was by far the likeliest outcome. 

The production has known since Monday that they would likely be cancelling all these performances. It’s terrible customer service to waste thousands of people’s time waiting to hear about a performance that isn’t happening. 

I think even a 4 person, straight-play with a fixed unit set would still probably cost $550,000 these days. It's just what it costs, and why it baffles me why anyone would want to produce a Broadway show.

This will surely be a test of if the play can stand on its own. I cannot imagine any market research showing Betty as someone able to sell tickets. Then again, neither had Cole, but they are now singular with the production. Will be interesting to see its grosses for those weeks.

witchoftheeast2 said: "Marykate Morrisey, the current Elphaba on Broadway, has announced her final performance will be March 2nd.

Any predictions or hopes as to who could replace her?"

Have seen around the web in the last hour that it is likely a Black actress. Don’t have a name though, but apparently a bunch of people do. 

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "For what all this is worth (and I have no insider knowledge on this show) —

The fact that they changed digital agencies days after opening makes no sense if a Dec 1 closing date is indeed set. That doesn’t mean they’re guaranteed to run for months more but it indicates to me that they’re still trying to make a go of it.

Respectfully, this is actually very common. 

A chamber musical about robots falling in love has to be one of the hardest sells there is. People want big escapism at the theater right now. I am so burned out on AI and technology that even as a seasoned theater goer I feel like I’ll be dragging myself to see this. The only thing intriguing about it is the raves. 

Was waiting to see if this would make it into today’s Broadway Briefing. It did not. 

Good examples of how you can't beat bad word of mouth. If anyone on the fence of Cabaret were to Google it, they would  not be persuaded to buy a ticket.

I remember Elizabeth A Davis as Reza in ONCE getting nominated for a role with very little independent stage-time was a curve ball.