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The Met has nearly returned to pre-pandemic capacity levels. Last season ended at 72% capacity, the 2018-2019 season had 75% capacity. They were up 2% this fall opposed to last fall, we'll see where they land overall when spring figures get released at the end of the season. It's possible we will see they fully recovered in house numbers this season.

The financial problems the Met has do not have much to do with in house ticket sales. Costs have exploded. The donor ba

Two Strangers cannot follow the MHE trajectory. MHE started increasing sales the second reviews came out, and was having profitable weeks for many weeks running by time the Tony nominations were announced.

The WOM on Two Strangers clearly is not having anything close to the same effect. NYers just are not interested in this show at a sustainable price. They are not seeing it themselves, and if they are, they are not active in influencing others to see it. And I don't see that

Sutton Ross said: "I would say it's almost certain that none of this season's new musicals will recoup, which isn't going to encourage investors to put money in new musicals for next season or any future season.

Completely agree, many investors have already pulled way back and long term this is a very bad situation for musicals and Broadway in general."

I think the investment problem really is not the low percentage of shows that

I hate popcorn. I find it disgusting. The smell alone makes me nauseous. I stopped attending movie theaters as much because I was tired of dealing with it. I'm already at a point where I have avoided certain shows because I knew they were in an ATG house. I'm not going to spend over $100 to have a subprime experience because of something as ridiculous as snack sales that shouldn't even be on sale in the first place.

They already have the highest ticketing fees in the i

I'm going to take it as a good sign that Premiere Collectibles is sold out of signed copies of Liza's book. If those copies were autopen, there would be no reason for them to ever sell out. You can always fire up the pen and "sign" more.

The AI audio clips/audiobook are extremely disappointing. It sounds like Liza, but it has none of the wit or delivery Liza would have. You hear a written joke, yet it's delivered flatly. She would not deliver those words

DCDrama2 said: "This is really interesting. I'd love to see revival stagings and performances added next to the original count just for kicks.

Ex: Cats - 7,485 (1:593)"

This thread is fascinating. I was also interested to see how everything landed with revivals. I added up performances from all revivals, equalled a total, and indicated what place they would fall if revivals were included.
 

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If you want to tie all of those details together, it seems very likely opening night will have to be moved back. At that point, that means people bought tickets for a finished product that is unfinished. Are those people allowed to complain at that point? Who is the arbiter around which audience members are allowed to complain and at what point it becomes acceptable?

Happy to talk common sense - if you're the only person in a show, with no one on stage to pick up the

BJR said: "This is hardly the first show not ready for its preview. If she's still struggling weeks from now, ok fine.

But a handful of previews when it's this big a lift is unfortunate but not unimaginable."

Opening night is 5 performances away. How many weeks are we supposed to give for her to stop struggling?

I find it insane how everyone who saw the show is saying variations of the same line "she was not ready to begin performances&

In a year where there are few clear frontrunners, I think the Road Vote is going to be very important, especially if they vote in a unified block. I can't imagine they want 2 years of 2 person Best Musicals to hang their touring packages on, the current one with a set/physical production that doesn't even really fill up the Longacre. Imagine going to see Two Strangers in a 2500 seat house.

The musicals side will be about Ragtime v Cats. Ragtime is built for the road. Cats would

• build a new house specifically for this purpose
• convince unions you need a new type of contract that covers your purpose
• create new licensing agreements with various estates. You wouldn't be able to build a production and only run it one season. You would need to have a rights agreement that covered 5-10 years.
• build relationships t

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RippedMan said: "Does any theater in the world do that? I would think it would be a logistically nightmare Especially if you're wanting to do it on that level. Summer Stock very much still exists."

Staatsoperette Dresden does a season of musicals and operettas. About 4 new productions each season along with 10 existing productions from their repertoire. The productions are pretty large and look terribly interesting. On the musical side this season they have Evita

I was there last night.

It's very charming. They've thrown what looks like a lot of money into it. It's the most set I've seen at a CSC show. And 9 musicians in the pit is the most I've seen/heard over there. (I think Passion might have had 9?) They even had a couple of merch items.

The ensemble is incredibly strong. One of the problems with this piece is that it's called The Baker's Wife, but it's about the townspeople. The main character in the