Profile for Teatro2

hold the thought about broadway... anyone been to Vegas lately?? Is it a good idea to send 90-minute digest versions of B'way shows to Las Vegas?? (ie. THE PRODUCERS, AVENUE Q, SPAMALOT, JERSEY BOYS, HAIRSPRAY) ... to my knowledge, JERSEY BOYS is about to open there while all the others failed and closed with their 90-minute versions. Is it just me, or is there something very wrong about that concept?? Or is it irrelevant because "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"? :)

I've got to say, this business about high ticket prices vs discounts is just non-sense. The key to producing a financially successful show is to produce an artistically successful show. Which YF did not (both audiences and critics seem to agree). The producers must have foreseen the oncoming reaction to the lack luster production from the limp support it got from the out-of-town tryouts, thus prompting them not to discloses their weekly grosses. What an embarrassment after the smash-hit box o...