"I’d rather shows take their time to finish developing and come to Broadway when they’re ready and set up for success, rather than the “Quick! This is our chance!” mentality this season’s producers seem to have. We’re oversaturated with new shows that will be gone before most people even have time to catch them, and some of the most consistently mediocre reviews I’ve read in a minute.
“Quality over quantity” has rarely been more applicable."
While I feel like most people would agree with this in theory (I certainly do), if you're involved in a show, and that show has hype... Don't you kinda just have to take the chance of Broadway when it's offered to you? Unless you're one of the big players (say, Lin-Manuel or Disney, for example), If you're offered a Broadway theater but instead say "na, we're not ready yet, we'll wait...", What is the likelihood that you'll get another shot? I'm genuinely asking as I don't know how these things work.
There's been so many shows that we've seen who had some type of out of town tryout, or is gaining good word of mouth, but then just kinda die when it doesn't take it's next step quickly enough. I of course understand the rebuttal of "okay but if it's not ready, is that really a good idea?", but then that raises the OTHER question of "well would I prefer for them to see a possibly pre-mature version of our show... or not see anything at all?"
Which is the better choice?
Updated On: 4/18/24 at 05:21 PM
