Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/7/22 — Page 3

Are y'all referring to that Sean Hayes project?

In case anyone is interested to see how Passion was doing at least in terms of seats sold around the same time in 1994 (not good)

binau said: "In case anyone is interested to see how Passion was doing at least in terms of seats sold around the same time in 1994 (not good)

I don't know the grosses, or how realistically to compare them, but the box office performance of Passion makes A Strange Loop look pretty decent. Even in a bad week, A Strange Loop came a lot closer to filling the (admittedly smaller) house.

The small burst of interest that Passion got after its Tony win dissipated quickly, and that show had the Sondheim name going for it. As near as I can tell, the problem for A Strange Loop is not so much that people hate it, but that they have no desire to see it in the first place. It definitely doesn't seem like a great summer tourist show for the sort of middle-aged white people who make up most of the Broadway audience.

It's not my money, but I still would argue - even if its box office doesn't pick up in the fall - that the producers achieved one main goal. My daughter saw it on her New York City trip in June, and she probably wouldn't have caught it in an off-Broadway house. It stands a better chance of touring, at least in a few major cities. That isn't a viable model for commercial theater, but maybe it's worth it for the investors in this particular show.

Whatever ASL is planning to do, sales do not look good starting in September. So unless they're selling half the house week-of, it could be a fool's errand to try to limp through to Thanksgiving/Christmas. Even if everyone's already on waivers, it prob costs more than $550K per week.

And it goes without saying that the touring/licensing potential does not look great for this one.

While I agree that a grain of salt with every rumor is absolutely essential, I also think we've seen an increase in credible rumors leaking on this board over the past year or so. And I think the batting average goes up even higher if you manage to weed out the "rumors" that were actually just pieces of speculation that spiraled out of control. If you follow this message board closely like many of us do, it's not too hard to weed those out, because you can usually trace the rumor back to its source, and discover it was actually someone casually throwing out a possibility.

As for the user in question: regardless of what he's like as a person, and regardless of what's going on in his personal life (neither of which are for me to comment on), he is in fact a user who leaked credible information on multiple occasions. But then he confessed to inventing a rumor just to mess with us - and in doing so, he elected to tank his own credibility. I understand that trolls gotta troll (I have to admit it's mildly funny in retrospect). But it's baffling to me that he brazenly confessed to it, while simultaneously relying on these inside scoops to build an online presence. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

BWW has consistently been the most reliable place for rumours in my experience - it's one of the reasons I stick around. Of course there's always trolls or attention seekers, or someone's wishing that gets repeated and then snowballed into "I heard". There will be anywhere. But BWW seems to have the higher percentage of people who actually know things.