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At this point, I don’t know if I can believe Cats is going to transfer anymore and I’ll happily be wrong if it does. 

In a large Broadway theatre for an open ended run I would still expect Evita prices to be semi reasonable. Unless they get George Clooney to play Peron or Che or Eva or something. 

Exactly. Sunset has been in a large theatre with plenty of availability for over 6 months with multiple ways to get affordable tickets in good locations. I don’t think it reflects anything wrong with Broadway - quite the opposite. If people want to spend $1,000 for the final performance that’s on them. I suspect these final few weeks have and will contribute majorly towards recoupment after months of mediocre sales. Good on them. 

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hottest show in London right now. Everyone everywhere wants to be inside OR outside the palladium in London this summer!! 

Audra is the first and only Rose in history that did not perform 8 times a week. I thought her vocals were so strong I wondered how she would sustain them, I guess the answer is she can’t? 

It looks like they might be closing the rear mezz. 

I would not expect Phantom to be revived on Broadway for at least 10 years (though maybe that would be covered by the 'sooner or later'). 

If this is a hit and becomes a kind of 'sleep no more', there is no chance of a revival happening at the same time. If this is a complete and utter flop it will feed into a narrative that NYC is done with Phantom for a while. 

Is it? We barely know anything about it yet lol. My god. 

When is the last time we had this kind of melodic feel good catchy score? I can't believe that "A Little Versatility", "In Colour", "Where I Wanna Be", "Why Look Around the Corner", "Something to Shout About" and "The Colour of Love" was deemed not worthy of a nomination. It should have won the Tony! 

Aesthetically, the pink doesn't work for me but in a weird way it kind of makes the whole thing seem like a Lea Michelle Diva star vehicle and I can always get behind diva worship. 

Well, my low key excitement turned into real excitement. This isn’t amateur hour but the real deal!! 

Of course we all want it to happen but I don't think it was unrealistic/a pipe dream to assume that the National Theatre, who frequently do show their productions including Sondheim's Follies, would take the opportunity to present Sondheim's final work especially when the cast has a couple of TV stars. 

Anyone else still low key excited and hoping that it turns out to be good?

Telecharge IT team and/or contractors, getting ready to apply fixes to these problems. They were trained well by the libretto of NERDS.  

Huss417 said: "binau said: "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/nyc-tourism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.Z_98.gYnPBeRbjtzC&smid=url-share

There appears to be a clear decline, and I'm sure it will have an impact on Broadway (in low margin businesses such as much of the hospitality industry even a small decline can have catastrophic impacts on profit), but it's not like it's gone from 100 to 0 so to speak. So I'm still hopeful there will be SOME uplift in Broadway demand over summer.
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Prices for Hotels in the Times Square area are way down from the same time last year. I am comparing apples to apples. The same hotel exactly one year apart. Last year 4 nights was $1909.26 this year $1206.64 and it has been dropping weekly. I have rebooked about 4 times already. I think I paid more in February which is usually the cheapest."

I think a relevant measure would be how have hotel prices changed from say Winter/Spring just past to Summer now (if you're saying you paid more in Feb to now that's not a good sign though). Even if we recognise that demand is going to be less than last year the question is, is it still higher than it was the past few months? If demand is less over summer than the last few months seems like we're in big trouble. If demand is more over summer than past few months, even if less than a year ago, it could mean that we still expect to see some uplift in Broadway grosses from tourism. 

So is Bernadette back again?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/nyc-tourism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.Z_98.gYnPBeRbjtzC&smid=url-share

There appears to be a clear decline, and I'm sure it will have an impact on Broadway (in low margin businesses such as much of the hospitality industry even a small decline can have catastrophic impacts on profit), but it's not like it's gone from 100 to 0 so to speak. So I'm still hopeful there will be SOME uplift in Broadway demand over summer. 

For what it's worth, there were 313,434 seats sold and/or comped last week vs 328,951 this week, which is a 5% increase (although maybe all the closings could have helped).