mrshowbiz90210 said: "Thanks Carlos!! What a gift for linguistics. I am the not miserable , I guess I would be if I was a BOOP investor or someone invested in a studio recording of a flop."
Investing in a cast recording might be a bit of a long term game here. Lots of not that great shows have lives in licensing for secondary and amateur markets; many of the things that detract from BOOP as a whole (most of the subplots) might be quite a nice selling point to amateur casts wanting to cast broadly in terms of age and talent. The songs are pretty catchy, and although the Broadway production has lots of pizzazz and choreography it's the kind of thing I could see being a bit of a crowd pleaser to, frankly, less demanding audiences that are happy with a change of wash to symbolise colour versus black and white. If you've got a soundtrack out there, people will use it as a reference for their own production - it's a pretty major part of licensing.
Well, either that, or David Foster funds its production entirely from his own funds as he has probably got the cash to spare to produce an album.