Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/15/26- Page 2

[broadfan327]

Posted: 2/20/26 at 11:14am

Back Row said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Kad said: "Considering the pushing of the narrative of how hard it is to recoup and how few new shows have, I wouldthink they’d want to yell it from the mountaintops the second it happens."

They’ll probably announce during the roadshow this spring. Didn’t they throw a pretty big presentation last year? Just in Time will sell like gangbusters in Florida; I’m sure the presenters down there are clamoring for it."

Not to mention the eventual cruise ship opportunities. The ships are getting bigger, and so are the shows. The advantagefor this show on a cruise ship is there is no need to have a "star". I think this show could run for years with the right choice of venues. If they find the right star, it could have a life in Vegas. Groff did the heavy lifting to make it a profitable investment for the producers. Now it's time for them to explore other opportunities for the show, and there appear to be plenty."

I follow the cruise industry.  Cruise lines are dropping Broadway shows in order to save costs, like NCL, to develop their own shows.

[Back Row]

Posted: 2/20/26 at 1:20pm

broadfan327 said: "Back Row said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Kad said: "Considering the pushing of the narrative of how hard it is to recoup and how few new shows have, I wouldthink they’d want to yell it from the mountaintops the second it happens."

They’ll probably announce during the roadshow this spring. Didn’t they throw a pretty big presentation last year? Just in Time will sell like gangbusters in Florida; I’m sure the presenters down there are clamoring for it."

Not to mention the eventual cruise ship opportunities. The ships are getting bigger, and so are the shows. The advantagefor this show on a cruise ship is there is no need to have a "star". I think this show could run for years with the right choice of venues. If they find the right star, it could have a life in Vegas. Groff did the heavy lifting to make it a profitable investment for the producers. Now it's time for them to explore other opportunities for the show, and there appear to be plenty."

I follow the cruise industry. Cruise lines are dropping Broadway shows in order to save costs, like NCL, to develop their own shows."

To my knowledge, Royal Caribbean is the only cruise line with a significant presence in U.S. ports that offers Broadway shows, and they seem to be aggressively promoting them on their largest ships. Royal Caribbean takes their large main stage shows very seriously, and spends a lot of money on them. Holland America takes a different approach, focusing on the quality of entertainment in the smaller venues on the ships and that seems to be a successful strategy for their (older) customer base. NCL is cutting costs on everything these days, so I'm not surprised that entertainment is included in those cuts. Their entertainment is already pretty awful, so I'm wondering where they will make the cuts. 

To me, Just In Time is a relatively small production and checks all the boxes for an affordable production on a cruise ship, but then, what do I know?  It might be more difficult to produce than I think, even scaled down for a cruise ship. Most cruise ships are not large enough to include a Broadway show as an option, but the cruise lines that take entertainment seriously are including a Broadway show on their largest ships and promoting it aggressively.