AMAZING GRACE sets closing- Page 3

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 9/17/15 at 9:27am

Except that Newintown's argument is a false one based on many assumptions, including the sentiment that those spending their $$ on keeping this show open would "typically" use it for charitable purposes. We have no clue. Perhaps those Newintown speaks of were only interested in throwing their money at this and not at other wonderfully charitable causes, which would be a shame but is certainly possible. How can we know? Again, we are assuming that money would have gone elsewhere if not into AMAZING GRACE... But there's no proof to back this assumption up. 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/17/15 at 9:43am

"Except that Newintown's argument is a false one..."

You must be acutely sensitive to that issue, L's H, since that's what your entire posting history here is based on.

[newintown]

Posted: 9/17/15 at 9:52am

Where, anywhere among the words I wrote, do you see any "assumption" "that those spending their $$ on keeping this show open would "typically" use it for charitable purposes?"

 

I certainly didn't intend to voice any such "assumption," nor do I think what I wrote can be interpreted as such.

 

I may have implied that if one wanted to invest money to disseminate a quasi-christian message, investing in social services would be more appropriate and effective than keeping a badly-written piece of commercial theatre running to 1/2 empty houses.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 9/17/15 at 2:04pm

This show's closing is a function of when the Nederlanders told them to pack their bags and has nothing to do with the producers, who would let the show languish until the Second Coming. 

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 9/18/15 at 1:41am

Under what circumstances does the theatre boot out a show, Hoganshero?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 9/18/15 at 2:43am

There are "stop" clauses in pretty much every rental agreement with the theatre owners. If a show goes a certain number of weeks without reaching a certain gross & capacity then the owners can evict that show in order to allow whatever production is waiting in the wings for that theatre to vacate so they can announce their intention to move in.

 

Even if the theatre owners do not invest any money in a production, they still want to fill their houses with a hit, as they will make more off of a hit show than a show that is severely underperforming, such as Amazing Grace has done its entire run. Of course it's always a gamble that the show moving in will flop just as hard, but in most cases its better to evict the current show that is bombing in hopes that the next tenant will fare better.

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 9/18/15 at 3:10am

Thank you AEA AGMA SM .. that was really informative.