Yankeefan007
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#1Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:07pm
Is that normal...for any show? (Read article for more info).
PS: What planet is David Ian on? The Atkinson is across from Les Miz?
"You're performing within four or five blocks of arguably the best performances in the world," Ian said by phone from London. "Across the street is 'Les Misérables,' up the road is 'Phantom of the Opera,' and 'Hairspray.' With all due respect to regional theaters, this is a very different pressure."
http://www.startribune.com/1555/story/1356688.html
#2re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:11pm
That must have been a flub on his part, because earlier in the article he says, "Now she was being mobbed by well-wishers after the first previews of the $10 million revival of "Grease" on Broadway."
But yeah, what a weird flub, the 1 and the 3 aren't even next to each other on the keyboard...
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#2re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:12pmThe expense certainly isn't reflected in the production. I wonder where all the money went?
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#3re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:13pmKathleen's salary?
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#4re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:16pmWell, Hairspray was 10.5, Wicked was 12? THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS?!
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#5re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:30pmYoung Frankenstein is a reported $20 Million, so it must be an error.
#6re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:40pmJudgeing by the strandards he proberbly meant $30
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#7re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:43pm
According to Variety it's budget is 9.2 million.
Grease gets Broadway boost
#8re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:47pmWicked's budget was $14 million, not 12.
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#10re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:54pmAlso, is he combined the two Grease's? Both in London and on Broadway, since he produced both?
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#11re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 5:02pmNo because the UK production of Grease has a budget of 75 pence lol
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#12re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 5:06pmMAybe the $30 million takes into account all the production costs and advertising done in connection with the dreadful reality show?
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#13re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 5:10pmTo answer Yankees question, David Ian is on Mars. Or at least he belongs there.
#14re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 5:10pmIsn't Spiderman supposedly around $50 million?
"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster.
"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
#15re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 5:36pmWhat is he going to say, there's two empty theatres across the street? I think the emphasis is supposed to be on the competition and standards around them.
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#16re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 8:15pmHas this man ever been to New York? God, the least he can do is look at a map of the theatre district so he doesn't sound like a complete idiot.
#17re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 8:34pm
I'm trying to imagine a $30 million production of "Grease!"
What would they spend it on?!
Maybe they'd actually build a real time machine and zap the audience back to the 1950s for each performance.
Greased Lightin' would be an old beat-up car that would "rebuild" itself into a mega-machine right in front of the audience's eyes via Disney animatronics.
The entire cast would fly out over the audience as backup angels during Beauty School Drop Out.
The chorus would consist of 350 singers and dancers...
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#18re: Grease has a $30 Million Budget?
Posted: 8/12/07 at 9:52pmWell, he is right about one thing. This show (I realize he said Broadway....but in any case) is a very different game from regional theatre. Most of the regional theatres in my area do challenging work, trust their audience's intelligence, and do not pander to the lowest common denominator.
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