Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/25/18- Page 3

[Luminaire2]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 12:59pm

Okay, I haven't been able to access my original account in a long while (can't remember password and resets won't send...) But I had to make a new one just so I could comment on that Frozen gross... HOLY SHIZ. I about fell off my couch. 

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 1:14pm

Jarethan wrote: "I have to admit to being very surprised that it was so steeply discounted, even with Lane and Garfield.  I am guessing that it is just too soon after the recent off-Broadway revival; I also suspect that the availability of the National Theatre Live showings and the need to purchase 2 tickets at Broadway prices is undoubtedly serving as a deterrent for some."

Ever consider that maybe the play itself just isn't very good (x2)?

That's a big deterrent to ticket sales.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 1:26pm

HogansHero said: "@BuddyStarr there were in fact a huge number of TDF tickets. And while they can be picked up earlier, the half-hour is the deadline and most people don't go much before."

TDF says "In order to avoid long lines, please pick up your tickets 30 minutes prior to curtain." 

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 1:29pm

BuddyStarr said: "I believe "Wolf Hall" (I can't even remember if that was the name of the show or was it "Fox Hall" was also a two part play a couple of years ago at the Winter Garden for a limited time."

I saw both parts of that show on one day, what a mistake. It was so long and boring. I haven't seen Angels in America yet but the average tourist is most likely not going to want to sit in the theatre that long and have to see both parts. 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 1:58pm

After Eight said: "Ever consider that maybe the play itself just isn't very good (x2)?

That's a big deterrent to ticket sales."

The stature of the play is not open to debate, without regard to what you personally might think of it (or choose to say in your role here as a posturing troll). 

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 2:02pm

Just curious, After Eight. What was the last non-musical play you truly loved?

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 2:51pm

^

Miles2Go2,

Forty Carats

[raddersons]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 3:32pm

That play premiered literally 50 years ago. You've been going to see professional theater for 50 years and have hated every single play you've seen since.

Honestly, I admire your dedication. 

[BuddyStarr]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 3:38pm

@HogansHero: yes, TDF was only selling the tickets for both parts and their initial offering was consecutive nights.  then they opened more tickets but instead of consecutive nights it was consecutive weeks.

 

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 5:32pm

After Eight said: "^

Miles2Go2,

Forty Carats"

You haven't really liked anything in 30-40 years and yet again and again you continue to go to shows only to be severely disappointed, angry and shocked that anyone else would find even the smallest positive element in these "abominations". Don't get me wrong, you're nothing if not entertaining, but willfully subjecting yourself to this time and again, isn't this a form of psychosis? Maybe it's time to perhaps... talk to someone about this?

Updated On: 2/27/18 at 05:32 PM

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 5:50pm

^

 

Uhh, please read carefully. The question asked of me was the last play I "truly loved," not "really liked."

Distinctions matter.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 5:56pm

After Eight said: "^



Uhh, please read carefully. The question asked ofme was the last play I "truly loved," not "really liked."

 

And I thought for sure that A8's answer would have been one of Aristophanes' plays --- maybe The Clouds, or Lysistrata? (original casts, of course)!

 

 

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 6:37pm

I think people are overestimating Andrew Garfield's ability to sell tickets. If you look at his movie career the only work that would really draw fans is The Social Network and the Spiderman franchise. The former is really Jesse Eisenberg's movie and the latter had a mixed reception. It's not like he's Daniel Radcliffe.

[Mike66]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:14pm

raddersons said: "That play premiered literally 50 years ago. You've been going to see professional theater for 50 years and have hated every single play you've seen since.

Honestly, I admire your dedication."

^THIS.

Is too good to just pass over.

 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:15pm

And Nathan. For that matter, I am not convinced Radcliffe would be that much different currently. He has not been that much of a draw even closer to his heydey.

[markypoo]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:30pm

HogansHero, I'm going to aspire to your esteemed level, and agree with you here.
Radcliffe was a mediocre box office, and Nathan Lane has been chronically overexposed on Broadway.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:51pm

After Eight said: "Jarethan wrote: "Ihave to admit to being very surprised that it was so steeply discounted, even with Lane and Garfield. I am guessing that it is just too soon after the recent off-Broadway revival; I also suspect that the availability of the National Theatre Live showings and the need to purchase 2 tickets at Broadway prices is undoubtedly serving as a deterrent for some."

Ever consider that maybe the play itself just isn't very good (x2)?

That's a big deterrent to ticket sales."

After Eight, I have to admit that I used to get annoyed when people bullied you, even defending you occasionally..  Recently, I decided that you are just a really negative person; some of your dismissals are first and foremost just nasty, usually those of a provacateur.  I no longer have patience with that type of BS (I get enough of that watching the news).  

I really have to ask...are you as much of an a**-hole in your day to day life as you are on this board?  And what exactly is your basis for defining quality.  I saw 40 Carats twice, once with Julie Harris (in one of the most undeserved Tony awards ever) and once with Zsa Zsa Gabor, who at least brought a certain silliness to it.  40 Carats was a thoroughly mediocre, albeit mildly enjoyable show.  Period.  It received one Tony nomination, which it won.  Her competition was laughable.  The average run of the other three plays in which they appeared was 25 performances...two were monumental flops.  It was definitely a hit, back in the days when people went to see mindless comedies that aren't even produced any more.

I have occasionally wondered whether you are John Simon in his retirement; he rarely liked anything either and he is still alive, presumably also living in the past. 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 2/27/18 at 10:02pm

same dyspeptic personality, same pathology, different taste posture. 

[jbird5]

Posted: 2/28/18 at 1:34am

Shockingly, John Simon likes The Band’s Visit.

https://youtu.be/8U_DUjvXrXY

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/28/18 at 5:47am

Jarethan wrote: .  "Her competition was laughable." 

"Laughable????" That's the word you use to dismiss actresses like Estelle Parsons, Charlotte Rae, and Brenda Vaccaro, all of whom gave wonderful performances?

"Laughable," you say?

I really don't think you covered yourself in glory in any aspect of your post.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 2/28/18 at 7:39am

No one bullies AE.  No one here has any power whatsoever.  Being forthright, even if it's mean or nasty isn't bullying.   

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 2/28/18 at 8:46am

If anything AfterEight bullies other people by repeatedly crapping on anyone who enjoyed anything other than musicals and plays that are under 50 years old. He gets massively offended if anyone likes anything other than what he likes. His tiresome, repeated "You liked it? You have no taste, it was awful" is a form of bullying and harassment. He just can't let people have a good night out at the theater without, as I said, crapping on their enthusiasm.

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/28/18 at 9:01am

Poisonivy2 wrote: "He gets massively offended if anyone likes anything other than what he likes."

I'm not in the slightest bit offended.

"His tiresome, repeated "You liked it? You have no taste, it was awful"

Nonsense. I never said anything of the kind.

There's a fact that you have to face. Not everyone is going to share the same feelings and opinions as you. Those who express feelings and opinions contrary to yours are in no way "crapping" on you or your enthusiasm. A mature person accepts that not everyone thinks alike. The immature person whines, wails, and calls people names.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 2/28/18 at 9:28am

After Eight said: "Jarethan wrote:. "Her competition was laughable."

"Laughable????" That's the word you use to dismiss actresses like Estelle Parsons, Charlotte Rae, and Brenda Vaccaro, all of whom gave wonderful performances?

"Laughable," you say?

I really don't think you covered yourself in glory inany aspect ofyour post."

Brenda Vaccaro, who I always loved, had a supporting role in a terrible play that ran for 8 performances.  Her role required her to shout a lot, as I remember.  In an even remotely decent year, she would never have been nominated.

Estelle Parsons, who I have admired since I became aware of her in Bonnie and Clyde, was TERRIBLE in the Seven Descents of Myrtle, one of the most reviled plays Tennessee Williams ever wrote.  She overacted in the extreme.  The play ran 3 1/2 weeks; I remember being amazed that it ran that long, given how brutal the reviews were.

Charlotte Rae was enjoyable in an ensemble performance in a show that ran 6 1/2 weeks.  In an even remotely decent year, she would never have been nominated...maybe in the supporting category.  

I imagine you are quoting something that I am not recalling when you refer to my not covering myself in glory.  I guess if you are consistently obnoxious, unless rhapsodically praising work from 50 years ago (whether brilliant or thoroughly mediocre), one will at least be remembered -- as a crank.

 

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/28/18 at 9:30am

^

All three actress gave wonderful performances in their plays.

As did Julie Harris in Forty Carats.