BOM to launch in another theater?

oh my god if one more person starts a thread about this im going to have a serious freak out!

Can you even begin to imagine what a nightmare that would be? People showing up at the wrong theater, upset (name actor here) is in the "other" show and so on and so on.

are you freaking serious did u just compare the cure for cancer to people seeing BOM!

^ But this ain't a life or death matter. I agree with a post above, the confusion would cause more problems than having two shows running would solve

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Awful idea.

Hasn't this been discussed to death already?

"It makes sense [to move it]."

Does it? There's short term and long term. Factor in the long term, and it's not that simple.

I hate waiting in line at the M&M store. They wouldn't make cancer patients wait in long confusing lines for a cure, if they had one! I demand a second M&M store!!!

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Why would you use such a stupid analogy about MandMs?

Theatre saves lives in ways a lot of you wouldn't understand. If it weren't for shows like American Idiot, HAIR, Glory Days, BOM, Wicked, N2n I bet a lot of kids would end up turning to drugs and suiside. You can't pretend it isn't as important as medicine.

And I'm sick of getting PMs asking who I am and being accused of being a sock puppet (lol)?

I'm here because I love theatre. I post because I feel like I have a unique perspective you guys should listen to.

Do I like disagreements? Yes, I am on JV debate.

Does that make me a monster/ troll? No. It makes me proud of who I am!

After that, I am sad I offered a real response. Now I too am now convinced you are a sock puppet.

I don't think Broadway should adopt a "multiplex" business model.

Aside from many of the issues raised above, it only manages to deglamorize it one step further.

Plus, think about it. What multiplexes have done is remove the excitement and anticipation of having to wait to see a hit film. Just look at box office intake now as compared to that of 30 years or more ago. Now, audiences can see a blockbuster the weekend it opens in 3 bazillion theatres across the country. The initial weekend grosses are enormous. The second week, it falls off dramatically. And even a huge film that brings in $200-300 million at the box office will be gone from most theatres in six weeks (max). The biggest hit of the year comes and goes like a flash in the pan.

Thirty years ago, we had to queue up at one theatre (or a few more in bigger cities), sometimes waiting as much as two hours or more in advance to see a blockbuster movie the first week or so. The mega-hit films (Jaws, Exorcist, Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones) would usually run in theatres anywhere from 4 to 6 months, in even a small town. And the advance excitement and anticipation were palpable.

Broadway also has a disadvantage in that an entire separate production has to be mounted in a second venue. It's not like taking the master and striking a new print from it for a film. You're basically having to "remake the film" at the second location. Pretty cost-prohibitive when you think about it. Plus you'll see shorter runs by at least half, and Broadway is all about "number of performances" as well as weekly box office receipts to judge the success of a show. You'd be killing that if you turned it into a multiplex experience.

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Here's someone who thought of it first.

WRONG PHYLIS!!!!!

I was thinking of having BOM running at two theatres, side by side. So 2x the people could see it. It's called reading, you should have learned it when you were 11.