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CoffeeBreak said: "The financiers types want a new director too. More experience. I'm not sure this will happen anytime soon."What the hell are you talking about? Tony nominee for Best Director on For Colored Girls. Direction credit on Fire Shut Up In My Bones at the Met. Has several projects in the works she's also directing. Her resume as a choreographer practically cannot be bettered by anyone her age. I'm really tired of reading your constant haranguing and discounting of modern director'...

John Adams said: "Why is the score so incohesive in styles and why is so much of it C&W? I can appreciate the rock stylings used for the younger girls, and the style that’s sometimes used for the older character of David Siegel, but I can’t for the life of me see how C&W fits in any way within the world of “the queen of Versailles”....• “everybody wanted things” with “so we keep adding on to things”. “Things” and “things” isn’t a rhyme. (Because We Can)• rhyming Endwell with end well. (Caviar...

kdogg36 said: "OhHiii said: "Closing Imminent: Two Strangers"I think Kad made a similar point recently, but the reported weekly running costs for this production are about $480,000, so it's the only new musicals that's actually been making money most weeks. On paper, it should be the least endangered of the lot."The 480k figure that gets quoted a lot is from a Forbes article written when the show was in previews. It also appears to me that number is from the offering papers. The number is all...

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 base is dying off. Loans tak...

bear882 said: "What are Maybe Happy Ending’s weekly running costs?"Either Boroff or NYT reported they were 765k before the Tonys. Even taking a very hardline or ungenerous view, this was not a money losing week for them

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 measurably changi...

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 recoup. It's low, but taking a wider look at the industry it's no...

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 industry (12% on every tic...

If shows are not going to have out of town tryouts, they should build a gap week into the schedule in the middle of previews. (Shuffle Along did this.) Expensive, yes. But there are not enough hours in the day to make large scale changes once a show is up and running.

I saw it this past weekend. Rupert Goold really lived up to his name/reputation as "The Director of Tammy Faye" with this one.

Just received an email. Liza cancelled. They've already refunded. I'm absolutely heartbroken. I've never seen her in person

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 in that way. It would be one thing to u...

binau said: "Either Audra was lousy or Nicole was incredible for that to happen (especially given the social-politicised context of all of the various controversies that was hurting, not helping Nicole at the time)."Or it came down to 5 votes as every prognosticator who interviewed voters indicated, and 5 people thought that 7 Tonys was enough for a person, regardless of quality.

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. 4. Les Miserábles - 6,680 (+1,487 = 8,167) - 33. Cats - 7,485 (+593 = 8,078) - 45. A Chorus Line - 6,137 (+...

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 slack or help you out, kno...

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", and yet there are groups of people in here who did not see...

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 have a harder t...

I do think an idea like this has merit. The challenges are just too great for it to ever be feasible. You would have to....build a new house specifically for this purposeconvince unions you need a new type of contract that covers your purposecreate 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 to share production costs in co productions ...

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, Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Pippin...

Saw the show on Saturday after seeing it in Boston and thinking it had a lot of potential.We can call it. Cheno phoned it in. She was darker, more scrappy, and sang it better in Boston. If she's not going to get out there and at least fight for the show with her performance, the show has no reason to exist. I never found it painful like I found Tammy Faye and Swept Away, but this is DOA. Click Here To Toggle Spoiler ContentThe addition of Hannity the second that screen opens is baffling. You ...