AUDRA GYPSY Reviews — Page 15

Kad said: "It’s a real shame that after a triumphant opening and going into what should be one of the most lucrative weeks of the year, this production instead lost a week of performances and likely instilled a lot of uncertainty into ticketbuyers.

Producers really need to start changing their practices regarding coverage."


completely agree but they never seem to learn their lesson

they just hope their show wont be the one to fall victim

and in this case it backfired severely

the danger of the risk is obvious and predictable to the common folk

but most producers arent smart

theyre just cheap

 

I imagine the producers carry some sort of insurance to cover these types of circumstances. 

I don't know enough about theatrical insurance to give a helpful answer, but I do know it got much more expensive and complicated post-COVID. "Star Insurance" is a thing (see also: the SHUFFLE saga), but I don't know the breadth of that coverage for this specific production. Like anything involving insurance, it will involve months of jumping through hoops to get the money.

I still remain surprised that there aren't 2-3 covers per role (even if they aren't yet ready to go on). We literally just got through COVID where sometimes even that wasn't enough for a show.

Looks like the matinee is on!

Gonna assume that u/s board is going to be loaded.

 

Word is Audra is on today per the box office.

Updated On: 12/28/24 at 12:24 PM

pagereynolds said: "ACL2006 said: "Gonna assume that u/s board is going to be loaded.



Word is Audra is on today per the box office."

The matinee is basically sold out, so that's good news for them. I assume most folks are back to good health."

Nope- they just posted both performances are canceled today- shows will resume tomorrow.

Both performances cancelled today, with a message that the show will resume tomorrow. 

Their announcement specifically says performances resume tomorrow so…we’ll see. 

BorisTomashevsky said: "That’s a LOT of people who went into/are on their way into the city for the matinee and paid to be able to do so. Yikes."

I was giving them the benefit of the doubt with 2 hours notice a few days ago. 65 minutes is too close.

Inexcusable.  They need to give much more notice.  It was on this morning, now it’s off.  New sickness ? It or is it more unprepared understudies?  

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "ACL2006 said: "Cancelling an hour prior to curtain is so amateur especially since the box office was telling people earlier that Audra would be on today."

Just another example of why Box Office employees should never have to be tasked with servingas unofficial spokespeople for a production. It's not their job to know who's on.

Their union should crack down on this to remove them from that equation."

I mean, yes, and no. Really, if someone had asked this morning, they could have just said they didn't have any information that the full cast wouldn't be on.

People stoping buying rush or whatever tickets until the new year oye.