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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’s producers (including him...

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. Again, I'm not clai...

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...

As I posted to the author in the Times, grosses and audiences are at all time highs. Maybe we don't need 77 shows per season. A successful show can pay the appropriate salaries quite easily, and the vast majority of flops would still flop if all labor took a 20% cut. The truth is, the successful shows make so much money, the producers are willing to flood the market in search of their next elusive hit. And when the show flops they get to claim the Broadway model doesn't work.

Ensemble1711444445 said: "Moulin, Hells Kitchen, Stranger Things, and several others running in the red every week. How is that good for the investors or the town?Let's not pretend these people don't know how to make money while losing money!"

60'splayoff said: "To avoid paying overtime if they exceed a 3 hour runtime"They're going to make millions and millions of dollars and couldn't care less about their audience. All to save a couple of thousand bucks. Embarrassing.

. Can anyone take a guess why the curtain wasn't held? Take a wild guess.

https://www.newser.com/story/334098/andrew-lloyd-webber-is-worried-about-broadway.htmlThese guys kill me. All the way to the bank.