Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/24/24- Page 2

[BJR]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 6:51am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "TOMMY may have some of the bridge & tunnel steam that fueled JERSEY BOYS and BEAUTIFUL NOISE and BRONX TALE if they can offer an attractive enough range of prices. Or these sales could be frontloaded."

That was DEFINITELY the audience I saw the other night

[gibsons2]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 8:08am

Broadway Flash said: "Those who dislike days of wine and roses are the ones who laugh at every stupid bit in Spamalot. They want confetti."

I assure you there's zero correlation. Wine and Roses has one of the most godawful score I've ever got exposed to. Poor Brian, poor Kelli. They deserve better.

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 8:54am

How exactly is the score awful?  

[BMcGregor]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 9:08am

gibsons2 said: "Broadway Flash said: "Those who dislike days of wine and roses are the ones who laugh at every stupid bit in Spamalot. They want confetti."

I assure you there's zero correlation. Wine and Roses has one of the most godawful score I've ever got exposed to. Poor Brian, poor Kelli. They deserve better."

Utter nonsense.

[gibsons2]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 9:09am

BMcGregor said: "gibsons2 said: "Broadway Flash said: "Those who dislike days of wine and roses are the ones who laugh at every stupid bit in Spamalot. They want confetti."

I assure you there's zero correlation. Wine and Roses has one of the most godawful score I've ever got exposed to. Poor Brian, poor Kelli. They deserve better."

Utter nonsense."

Weekly grosses show otherwise. 

[BossBroadway]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 10:21am

If you think weekly grosses reflect how good a show's score is, you're actually an idiot. 

[gibsons2]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 11:33am

BossBroadway said: "If you think weekly grosses reflect how good a show's score is, you're actually an idiot."

Who hurt you? Take your meds and be nice to people, even online.

[Kad]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 1:32pm

The grosses only indicate a substantial lack of interest in the show with no other details.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 2:36pm

I'm not wading into the opinion of whether the DAYS score is good or bad. What IS relevant is that the show on a whole has not resonated with enough buyers across the board. No element of it has "hooked" enough people to buy at a sustainable price point. The story, subject matter, score, characters, and performances are all a part of that. Audiences are typically bad at articulating what they like and dislike about a show. It usually boils down to a "yay or nay" when recommending a show to someone else, and this show seems too dark, too sad, and too intelligent to illicit a "yay."

FUN HOME had tough subject matter but it was also an inherently warm, universal show about family. SWEENEY is a black comedy about murder and it wouldn't be as commercial-adjacent without the humor or its sweeping, melodic score (and yes I know the original did not recoup). Almost everyone dies in LES MIS, but it ends on a note of hope and a theme of love –– and, again, a melodic score. DAYS is a bleak show without the qualities that made those shows successful to mass audiences.

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 3:54pm

Well, I think it’s being poorly produced.  And if some of those musicals opened today, I’m not sure they would be selling tickets right now either.  If Sunday in the Park with George opened today, I bet it’d flop. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 4:00pm

Broadway Flash said: "Well, I think it’s being poorly produced. And if some of those musicals opened today, I’m not sure they would be selling tickets right now either. If Sunday in the Park with George opened today, I bet it’d flop."

Hadestown and Come From Away probably would have been massive flops too if they had first opened post-pandemic. 

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 3/27/24 at 5:37pm

Broadway Flash said: "Those who dislike days of wine and roses are the ones who laugh at every stupid bit in Spamalot. They want confetti."

I hated both personally.

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 3/28/24 at 11:38am

Broadway Flash said: "Those who dislike days of wine and roses are the ones who laugh at every stupid bit in Spamalot. They want confetti."

No. Just because someone laughs at Spamalot does not mean they can't handle something like Wine and Roses. They're entitled to dislike it without you automatically generalizing what type of shows they like 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/28/24 at 1:24pm

hearthemsing22 said: "Broadway Flash said: "Those who dislike days of wine and roses are the ones who laugh at every stupid bit in Spamalot. They want confetti."

No. Just because someone laughs at Spamalot does not mean they can't handle something like Wine and Roses. They're entitled to dislike it without you automatically generalizing what type of shows they like"

For the record, I like both shows.   Spamalot has never been my favorite, but it's silly fun AND I adored Wine & Roses.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 3/28/24 at 1:42pm

“Those who dislike days of wine and roses are the ones who laugh at every stupid bit in Spamalot. They want confetti”


Weren’t you just obsessing about a show who has a damn car fly over the audience? 

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 3/28/24 at 1:51pm

Yes Back to the Future is perfect.  I predict they will both be nominated for Best Musical.  
Back to the Future, Wine and Roses, Great Gatsby, Illinoise, Outsiders, Suffs.  Thats who’s getting in.  

[Alex M]

Posted: 3/28/24 at 1:58pm

Broadway Flash said: "Yes Back to the Future is perfect. I predict they will both be nominated for Best Musical.
Back to the Future, Wine and Roses, Great Gatsby, Illinoise, Outsiders, Suffs. Thats who’s getting in."

lol