Wall St Bloodbaths Effects On Broadway

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/10/11 at 6:29pm

After todays meltdown would anyone want to hazard a guess about how Broadway & NYC will take what will be a body blow to both. I know BOM will counter with a price increase but seriously how many besides me believe this will be devastating for Bway/NYC

Discuss

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 8/10/11 at 7:26pm

Maybe off-Broadway and OOB will become popular again.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/10/11 at 8:12pm

That would be great

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/11 at 10:41pm

If I had a dollar for every single thing you've said was going to kill Broadway, I would have no economic problems of my own. Seriously, Roxy, your track record on these matters has been abysmal.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/10/11 at 10:44pm

Historically during economic decline. Broadway and the Entertainment industry has boomed. People want escape from their economic woes and $135 ends up being a cheap release form the pressures of the real world.


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Updated On: 8/11/11 at 10:44 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/10/11 at 11:07pm

I guess if the world ended tomorrow, to you it would have no effect on Broadway. It is humming along & much like Superman nothing can hurt it.

Have a nice night NAMO

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/11 at 11:53pm

Roxy, objectively, on the face of it, you have considered everything from a stage hands strike to the success of The Producers to an increase in sales tax to a threatened transportation strike to facilities fees as being on a par with the end of the world happening tomorrow. Look at how many times this has been the panicked topic of threads you have posted over the years and yet the Great White Way has somehow survived. I agree with you that the end of the world would be bad for Broadway. And now you have made it clear that you think this most recent Wall Street Bloodbath is the end of the world. I think you're wrong again. And a good night to you, too.

[Kad]

Posted: 8/11/11 at 12:00am

Broadway has been through depressions, recessions, terrorist attacks, times of war, times of national mourning, strikes, bedbugs, Disney, hookers and drug dealers and pornography, organized crime, and god knows what else.

It'll stick around.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/11/11 at 12:04am

If three times a year Roxy announces that some new development is the straw that will break Broadway's back, eventually he might be right. And then he will have the pleasure of saying "I told you so."

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/11/11 at 9:36am

We have been in a recession for years now. B'way keeps rakin' in the bucks. I don't see a few bad days in the stock market creating too big of an immediate problem.

MIGHT some projects get delayed? Maybe. Might some projects in development get canceled? Maybe. But that ALWAYS happens.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/11/11 at 10:36am

I wonder if they'll cancel GODSPELL again.

But seriously, everybody was worried Broadway was gonna crash the first time around and not only did it not crash, it thrived. I guess if you have the money to travel here, you have the money for a Broadway show.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/11/11 at 10:47am

Are we reschuduling the Rapture again?

[Craig]

Posted: 8/11/11 at 1:34pm

a broken clock is right twice a day.... maybe he's just playing the odds

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/11/11 at 1:40pm

It's the knee jerk reactions like this that are the true problems of these circumstances. The stock market dropping is a knee jerk reaction to the knee jerk reaction of S&P downgrading the country. Every other financial expert has not changed their ratings.

Nice to see you on the boards, Craig!

[redmustang]

Posted: 8/17/11 at 7:00pm

I've always felt that what would hurt Broadway the most would be the increase in ticket prices. But evidently, I was wrong. I used to visit New York and stay a week and see 8 shows. Next month I'm flying in for 2 days and seeing 3 shows. The high ticket prices haven't hurt Broadway. They've hurt me and thousands of other lovers of Broadway plays and musicals who used to go to NY and return home with a lot of Playbills and many memories. Now, either because we can't afford it, or we refuse to pay these exhorbitant prices for a mostly inferior product, we must limit our choices and choose carefully. The rich will continue to sit 7th row center in NY. while the middle-class tourist will stay home and wait for the touring company to come to town. How sad.
Updated On: 8/17/11 at 07:00 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/18/11 at 1:28pm

The biggest challenge is figuring out when Roxy is pro-capitalism and big business, and when he's against it.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/18/11 at 11:38pm

Seeing b'way shows isn't a right. OF COURSE the wealthy gets the best...that's a perk of being wealthy.

However...when I miss a show that I truly wanted to see, it is seldom because of price. I use discounts, sometimes I go early or later in the run. I am not a wealthy person. I make choices. That's a perk of being in the middle class -- I have to be creative to do what I want.

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 8/18/11 at 11:54pm

The Production Contract for Broadway Actors is now in negotiation. I'm sure any salary increases for the Actor's and Stage Managers will bring on a new cry of doom and gloom, from Roxy!