Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/13/16 — Page 2

Please keep in mind that the lead producer of Bright Star is Joey Parnes, who of course had successfully been able to keep A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder open for as long as he could. The show made it into Tony season, and we all saw how that turned out.

Well Bright Star isn't winning the Tonys... Like Gentlemen's Guide did. 

But it hasn't even opened yet. 

I think the difference is that Gentleman's Guide opened in the fall, in a much less exciting and critically well-received season than this one. Keeping the show open was definitely a risky move, but obviously one that paid off. Bright Star is competing with the juggernaut that is Hamilton, along with much higher-profile projects like Waitress and Shuffle Along. I can't imagine they'll close before the Tonys unless things really bottom out financially, but I don't think it's a comparable situation to Gentleman's Guide.

Forgetting what you think of Disaster! for a second, I wonder if the show's name subliminally  puts off the average show goer.

Bright Star will go on to tour and be done regionally. It's a solid show. But it's not a 3 year run kind of show.