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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.
 

4. Les Miseráble

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

binau said: "Is there anything that can be done about the landlords or rent? In New York this is prime real estate so if the producers won’t pay the fees they could easily just close down the theatres and redevelop into something that will make this money or more money."

This is not a thing. The Broadway houses are practically all historically landmarked. They cannot undergo any renovations without approval from the city, and they certainly would not receive ap

CJRochester said: "If a tour comes to Broadway doesn't the company still pay the per diems for everyone's meals and housing? I imagine that must cost a lot for an NYC tour stop."

Not exactly. They are required to pay for either housing or offer a per diem...for the first 4 weeks of the 'tour stop'. They are not required to pay anything beyond that 4 week mark. 

The pay bumps up to Level One for these NYC stops. It's about a hundred les

SteveSanders said: "I feel like info on London theatre finances has appeared in threads from time to time.

If I recall correctly, it comes down to the basics of lower overall costs: healthcare, salaries, rents, production expenses, and of course, public funding for some theaters."

Very much this. The average rent for an apartment in London appears to currently be a little over $2100 in USD. The average cost of a studio apartment in NYC is currently est

The La Boheme is a cash cow for them. Yes it costs, but it sells. Yes, they do actually need to do it every season to financially survive.

The new operas do generally sell well in house. Unfortunately they do not sell in movie theaters when included on the Live in HD series, which is how those visually STUNNING productions of El Niño and Ainadamar went without a video recording. There are exceptions though, the Tesori Grounded was the least attended opera of last season. They re