Posted: 11/15/22 at 11:00pm
Sutton Ross said: "Yep, hopefully it will shut them up, especially if they didn't see the show. Good bump for several shows as the holidays arrive including Almost Famous which has gone up steadily in the past few weeks despite many posters wanting it to close. Whoops!"
Respectfully since that first line was absolutely aimed at me, why don't you shut up, because believe me I'm not going to
If people don't want to face the reality of what the seating charts are showing thats on you Kimberly is not going to survive on day of walk up sales and having advance sales a few weeks out at a time and is not scaling at the rate it needs to, the average ticket price is $84 even if the capacity is 100% that is 100% of people paying a third of what the top ticket price is on average, with a comped opening night they sold just over 80% of their seats last week and you could even buy tickets for opening night up until an hour before the show. This show has also yet to hit its nut once (which for the record is $500,000 believe it or not)
The week of Christmas the mezzanine is barely sold, this is one of the best weeks of the year and there are more unsold seats then sold, that is a fact and a reality, regardless of reviews, and peoples love for it (myself included) this show has a huge uphill battle to make it to the TONYs and Jesse Green's review even said as much
And because people think I have some axe to grand against it let me be clear this is an across the board issue, there is too much supply and not enough demand and potentially a dozen shows are going to post early notices in the next few weeks because the audiences are not there, I mean yes its only three performances but Ohio State Murders is playing to 50% with Audra McDonald? A production of A Christmas Carol which should be a easy sell has a average price of $21? Take Me Out which just won Best Play not even six months ago is playing to half empty houses?
People can fool themselves all they want but Broadway is in a bad state
