Profile for KKeller6

OhHiii said: "quizking101 saidI sincerely hope there's a story about just how much money they pissed away keeping that show open. Truly mindboggling sum of money I have no doubt. Do we have any sense of an estimate?"Netflix has 325 million subscribers. At $8.99 per month, that's about $3B per month. Per MONTH. Let them give back just a bit.

'm confused but also into it..." Klena was a highly regards pitcher and went to UCLA. But left before he had a career there. All I know is he can hit a softball about 20 miles.

Fred Mason said: "This evening I went to The Whoopi Monologues. My friend was in line for the bar, he said he was getting a ginger ale, I said don’t do it, they’ll charge you $10, as a joke. The bartender said 9 dollarsplease. This is madness.I think this is an important post, because we need to remember this when billionaires are crying about how they can't make any money on broadway. Maybe they're driving people away with certain practices. Maybe they're just ultra- greedy people and are do...

The interesting thing about these shows is, most of them have a very small set, or no real set at all. The stagehands have greatly relaxed the rules regarding hiring for the load in. The lighting packages go up far quicker than they did 20-30 years ago. Rehearsal time before opening has been greatly reduced. I would love to see how that $18M got spent. And how it compares to shows in the past. You would think running expenses are down. The backstage crew can be 50% fewer than years ago. The o...

Fred Mason said: "The landlords usually take a percentage of the box office, so they have skin in the game too. It’s not like a set amount taking over the operating costs. They’re certainly not the main problem, I’d blame unions before the landlords. Producers go to unions for exceptions for smaller projects, and they tell them, i need this exception or else I won’t be able to hire anyone. Rather than working with them, the unions literally don’t care and would rather none of their members ge...

The real shame is we're all paying for less. The orchestra is thin, the sets are practically non existent, and entire productions are often scaled down to the bare bones. Yet shows continue to flock in and attendance keeps climbing overall. And everyone keeps claiming they are losing money. And still they continue to come in. Go figya. It's all a scam. Their profit is already accounted for, in fees and royalties. The producers are all multi- multi millionaires.Lin- Manuel Miranda is worth $10...

I'm surprised it's only 10%. People are losing jobs left and right and new jobs are scarce and many come with a lower pay. Consumer confidence is very low especially in big cities like NYC where lucrative tech and finance careers are disappearing due to AI and horrible economy overall. Rich audience alone cannot sustain Broadway and us middle class folks who kept this machine going for decades aren't doing so well."Why now though when last years attendance was so good? Just the things you men...

But those tourists aren’t coming in the same numbers, so the show did big box office for several months in the spring and summer of 2025 and hasn’t really recovered. It did great business on domestic tourists like me, the sort of visitor who sees a Broadway show once. But that’s not enough, and I didn’t have to pay enough to bring in the boffo box office the show needs to recoup.If tourists don’t want to come to New York City because they don’t want to come to the US, they’re not going to see...

With all this constant talk about how shows can't make money anymore, why not just have less competition every season? Also, two weeks ago, according to the grosses listed here, Titanique sold 94% of their tickets and grossed a little over $900,000. With the stories that they need to make $1M to just break even, well, the numbers don't add up, do they? Why would you bring this to Broadway?

The Music Man made money for all.

In 1999, Peter Pan was having a limited run until September at the Gershwin. It was going to close early, with the notice going up the Tuesday after the Tony Awards. Cathy Rigby flew right at the camera out in the house that night and the line the next morning for tickets was out the door. We made the full run. Which again, begets the question, what are these people afraid of? You don't have to put a commercial on the super bowl. But a few well timed ads might actually make people aware you a...

TotallyEffed said: "I can’t wait for Trump’s death to be the one being announced."Don't let hate win. He wants that. Thrives on it.

So you've got nothing but strongly biased conjecture here, got it. If you've got something damning, by all means, share it, but absolutely nothing outlined in that article supports what you're alleging or even seems like unreasonable expenditure during an unprecedented and, at the time, indefinite industry shutdown. You're alleging they committed tens of millions of dollars of fraud, so, y'know, you better have something better than a hunch to support it. Couple of things here...the article w...

Kad said: "...that article entirely undercuts what you're claiming by breaking down what that money went to." Remember when Chrysler and GM were about to go bankrupt? In the same way that the federal government came in to bail out auto companies, it’s doing the same thing for all of show business with this legislation,” he said. “It’s returning us to health and it’s protecting the well-being of our employees.” "Seller said that none of the money would go to the show&rsqu

No problem, my friend! How ‘Hamilton’ Got $30 Million in Federal Aid - The New York Times https://share.google/xGhqDHdWIFR7AytDY This system was put in place for keeping businesses going. As we know, the show did not pay stagehands, musicians, actors, wardrobe, box office,etc. They kept a small office open to claim they were keeping their business open. Disgraceful. Outright theft!

More disgraceful behavior on part of the producers. Maybe the producers of Hamilton can offer some of the $50M they stole during Covid. These people are the worst of the worst.

Absolutely. I get that. There are 5 other shows on Broadway running right now that have grossed over a billion dollars each worldwide. And there are plenty others that are having good, successful runs. It seems a bit more than coincidental that its contract time( the musicians are up as well as AE) and and these stories are coming out. This is all most likely being done at the direction of the law firm Proskauer-Rose. The world's leading anti- labor law firm.

JSquared2 said: Wha??Do you honestly believe that "lowering salaries" is on the table -- by either side?? Also, contracts are negotiated and signed BEFORE the show starts performances -- so I have no idea why you're bringing "recoupment" (which is a REAL thing) into the equation?First off, poor raises in contract agreements, I equate with lower salaries. Secondly, recoupment is a shell game. It's a way for shows to appear not to make any money when they most certainly are. Aga

I think the idea is they can pay for a lot of misses and vanity projects. But you can't base pay on anything like that. I'm not suggesting that. I'm saying you have to look at the overall picture. And if you do, you realize there's plenty of money to spend on labor. And whatever else you need.

Salaries mean little in terms of success to a successful show. This is more ridiculousness by the people in charge. There were 77 productions this season. If every time a restaurant falls, should we discuss lowering their salaries? We can play this game for every single business in every single sector. Some businesses fail, some succeed. If you cant succeed paying decent wages across the board, you fail. And you should fail. It's really that simple. I choose to focus on the shows that are bil...