Profile for Show Me

Trailers are the single most important tool in marketing a movie. Millions and millions of people see them. Regardless of what Wicked turns out to be as a movie, the trailer is a failure. What’s surprising is how flat footed and dull it seems.

 

How does the loan taken out for SLIH work? Is the total added to the capitalization, or just the interest? Is it somehow built into the weekly running costs, or paid off before recoupment or added to the loss at the end of the run?

Sweeney Todd had its best week yet. I knew that Sound Design win would take it over the top! 🤣.

(BTW, good sound design isn’t about being able to hear an ensemble member suppress a sneeze at Wicked or Moulin Rouge. And not about expecting an ear bud experience. And not about thinking that Mrs. Lovett should be sitting in your lap while she sings in your ear.)

I also bet that Groban tours. Having 2024 off gives him the opportunity to take care of preexisting commitments, which helps explain the long delay.

what’s interesting is if the Broadway production runs after the leads leave, they’ll need names. They’re both dream roles, and I can imagine that a lot of notable ‘stars’ with voices would consider a run.
 

 

Sweeney Todd broke the Lunt-Fontanne house record. Amazing for a 7 performance week, and Groban missing a performance. It seems to be taking on a life of its own.

for those asserting that the ongoing negativity about this production on BW is a minority opinion, I share the very page on this site that compares the professional critical response to those of BW armchair prognosticators. With 85% of the critics being positive, versus 30% by readers, it’s pretty clear that this particular chat board sits in an extraordinarily and perhaps actuarially unprecedented spread regarding the disapproval of a hit show. And it’s so interesting that Sondheim was aware of this phenomenon and even has a lyric to commemorate it:

I saw My Fair Lady, I sort of enjoyed it.

I would guess that this board has a lot of folks who relate to Frank. The rest of the world seem to live in a less lofty, critical and relentlessly judgmental world