Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/6/22 — Page 2

Well sh*t. Looks like the Broadway audience are racists!

(That’s the line, right? That’s what we’re all meant to say now, right?)

Sauja said: "It’s a bit heartbreaking that brilliant productions of plays are struggling as much as they are. I wish Cost of Living went out higher. But it’s the Topdog/Underdog numbers that I can’t understand. Almost every review was a rave, but they can’t find an audience. While a Neil Diamond biomusical is packing them in at wild prices. It’s not great news in my view."

That’s part of the history of Broadway though, isn’t it? Tourists largely want to see something on Broadway that isn’t too challenging, something glittery and big. Something that fits their stereotypical definition of what they think Broadway is. Something entertaining. Something they can tell the people back home about. Something that is a known quantity because it’s a bio-musical that appeals to their nostalgia or a beloved movie-to-stage adaptation or a Tony-winner for Best Musical or a long-running show. Of course, there are quality productions to be found in all those categories. Just to say that non-theater-nerd tourists don’t necessarily have “challenging” and “intimate” at the top of their lists when they start considering what show to see on their trip. That also probably applies to a lot of NYCers (I’ve met a lot of NYCers who have never seen a show) and the bridge-and-tunnel crowd. If they’re gonna splurge on seeing a show and all that’s involved in that (for bridge and tunnel crowd, that may involve driving in, an expensive meal and parking and getting home late at night), they want a “sure thing.”

I know a woman here in Oklahoma who would go to NYC every year with her significant other and the only show they’d see every trip was Phantom. No other shows ever.

The good news is that even if the tourists are seeing a show that some of us might not consider “quality” (a subjective term for sure) then the investors for those shows can use their profits from those big hits to fund other more intimate & challenging theater that may not recoup.

TotallyEffed said: "BorisTomashevsky said: "Well sh*t. Looks like the Broadway audience are racists!

(That’s the line, right? That’s what we’re all meant to say now, right?)"



You okay?"

Just great honey.

Updated On: 11/8/22 at 05:07 PM

''A Beautiful Noise'' had a great start, didn't know Neil Diamond had that much of a fanbase. Let's see how they will be in a few weeks.

I look next dates for ''Some Like It Hot'' and it's not exactly good

''& Juliet'' has a good start, it will likely get close to 1m soon.

A Beautiful Noise should crack the $1 million dollar club soon. It's advance is fairly strong with weekends nearly sold-out until the end of the year.

VintageSnarker said: "How is KPOP only pulling Dana H numbers (and that was coming back from the shutdown)? Are people that alienated by the show not being entirely in English? Would supertitles help? Jeez."

I don't think most people are even interested in it enough to find out it's not all in English, let alone be alienated by that fact. The plot summary reads like a bad TV movie with the superstar singer haunted by her inner demons who needs to pull it together to save her label or whatever the heck it's supposed to be. Why would anyone expect a Broadway audience to be fascinated by the behind the scenes world of K-pop?

Updated On: 11/8/22 at 05:39 PM

VintageSnarker said: "How is KPOP only pulling Dana H numbers (and that was coming back from the shutdown)? Are people that alienated by the show not being entirely in English? Would supertitles help? Jeez."

because they did a $19 ticket firesale which has clearly backfired

Sauja said: "It’s a bit heartbreaking that brilliant productions of plays are struggling as much as they are. I wish Cost of Living went out higher. But it’s the Topdog/Underdog numbers that I can’t understand. Almost every review was a rave, but they can’t find an audience. While a Neil Diamond biomusical is packing them in at wild prices. It’s not great news in my view."

The tourists currently clogging Times Square don’t have the slightest idea what Topdog/Underdog is and if they did know it was a grim two character play about two brothers living in a run down apartment, I doubt they would go see it anyway, despite all the reviews and awards the play has. They want a big splashy musical and the Neil Diamond jukebox show fits the bill with them.

I thought that "Death of a Salesman" was going to be no brainer and a much bigger hit but their numbers have been really lack-luster.

What an asinine thing to say.

TotallyEffed said: "What an asinine thing to say."

So say something else.