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In 2010 Hunter Foster started a group seemingly protesting that people like Catherine Zeta Jones and Scarlett J H got Tonys etc.

https://playbill.com/article/hunter-foster-starts-facebook-group-give-the-tonys-back-to-broadway-com-191093

1. Did this achieve anything?

2. Is it or was it actually ever a problem?

 


 

 

Seth Rudetsky:

For all the "I'm not anti-Jewish, I'm anti-Ziomist" people. It is the same. It is Jew hate. The lies, the misinformation, the twisting of the truth, the FALSE claims of "genocide", "open air prison", "apartheid"...all LIES by the way, have led to a massive surge of worldwide violence against Jews.

These lies been funded by Russia and Iran and others and have taken over social media... and people on the left belive it blindly and think they are freedom fighters, when they're actually falling for the same tricks the Right used when it demonized the Black Lives Matters movement and demonizes trans people and immigrants.

I am begging, I am BEGGING people to speak up. The majority of people on the left whom I've been fighting with side-by-side for 30 years, have been silent. SILENT!!!Or actually posting these lies. It is traumatizing my fellow Liberal Jews. It is KILLING PEOPLE. LITERALLY.

Speak the **** up. If you need information, reach out to me and I will connect you with people who actually know non-partisan facts.

The Bridge Into the Woods thread seems to have disappeared. What???

Where can we see first hand what Kecia Lewis said? What does not taking kindly mean? 

Very odd. It would be like someone giving a rave review to a production of 'Follies' saying they loved the glitzy frivolous show girls with the only feedback that the theatre looked a little run down, or something. 

Critics? What's happened to them. 

Wow, I sat through a very low quality bootleg but Nathan Lane and the production itself was spectacularly funny with a great supporting cast too. To me this clearly is one of the best/most important Sondheim revivals. Who managed to see this and what did you think? 

A broadway revival really is desperately overdue.

SteveSanders said: "Does the actual study, instead of this article's highlights, reveal mean data instead of just average figures? That would be particularly useful for several of the figures."

Mean or median?

I don't remember seeing a Snow White or Sleeping Beauty

More photos

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSFnN_mDS-J/?utm_source=ig_embed

Thanks that is good you paid attention to it so we can be sure I agree then from what you described it does look like there is a little bit of an impact which is cool for Nicholas C. 

Ok so just so I understand were all of his absences actually pre scheduled? 

EricMontreal22 said: "And I admit, I'm not even sure how to gauge if the past two Sunday in the Park revivals were successful or not... The 2008 was a limited engagement,so does that count? (Another Sondheim show, Company's first revival was also a Roundabout limited engagement that almost transferred but... didn't) And the 2017 Gylenhaal revival was also a limited run that obviously sold well during that limited time but...

(I guess this is where answers to the original question get complicated.)"

The 2017 Sunday in the Park with George revival recouped after just 56 performances or 7 weeks. WOW. And that was only in 2017.......I'm guessing today it would take months. 

I do remember at the time it had the highest grossing weeks of any Sondheim musical ever on Broadway (the Bernadette Follies actually previously had the record for highest week, but that was a much larger theatre and the success was short lived). 

https://playbill.com/article/sunday-in-the-park-with-george-starring-jake-gyllenhaal-will-be-preserved-on-a-cast-recording

Scanning the Sunday (2008) grosses, we can be certain the 2017 revival was more financially successful so it KIND of counts in a roundabout way, even though it probably isn't fair to compare a not-for-profit to a A-list star commercial broadway. 

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/SUNDAY-IN-THE-PARK-WITH-GEORGE

Sunset still earned more than half of its investment back, won multiple Tonys, had some brief cultural impact and had many, many weeks of good business all of which QoV could only dream of. So I guess it depends on what you mean by decent but let’s not pretend it was a catastrophic failure. This is also in an environment where now almost no musicals make a profit on Broadway. 

There must be some other examples of this but it's striking how successful RAGTIME is now compared to the previous revival. This can only be a good thing because it means that even if there are revival flops people can always point to Ragtime as an example of why they could try again (so for example maybe someone will finally do the Audra Follies). The same way people can always point to Maybe Happy Ending to say that the 'little show that could' can turn things around.