Be More Chill Announces Closing! — Page 3

little_sally said: "ACL2006 said: "I do wonder if this will tour. Either way, be prepared for every high school and community theater to do this as soon as the rights are available."

Haven't the rights always been available, even during the Broadway run? I thought I read somewhere that the producers kept them available and there's even been regional productions while it was on Broadway."

Yes rights have always been available for the original, pre-broadway, material. We had a local high school do it in the fall and a small regional theatre has it on tap for the summer.

dwwst12 said: "Kad said: "Well, if nothing else, this will demonstrate the commercial viability relying entirely on being viral. A million streams of the album means nothing if those people don’t buy tickets."

Don't a lot of shows that fail to recoup on Broadway make the money back -- albeit slowly -- via tours, licensing, etc? I feel like with a couple of lyric changes, this show could be a steady earner in high school and community theater for a long time. It seems like measuring commercial viability by the length of an initial run is only measuring a small part of the business."

Revenue that comes in from tours or licensing doesn’t make the initial production any less of a loss. Productions are separate from the material.

Be More Chill does a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR:



https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/736773380/be-more-chill-tiny-desk-concert

They just announced they're opening Off-West End in February at The Other Palace.

How do you think it's gonna do over there? I think this is Joe Iconis' first international production, so good for him.

The breaking news item refers to it as "the smash hit Broadway musical".



Oooooohhhkaaaaayyy. Guess the bar for that is lower than I thought.