Broadway's COME FROM AWAY on Apple TV - News & Discussion Thread — Page 7

Sutton Ross said: "It won't. And AppleTV has 40 million subscribers so plenty of people will see it if they want."

No reason for us to revisit this subject since it is already rehearsed in this very thread

KKeller, good question. It's a matter of scale. A good week for the show on Broadway is 8000+ attendance. If they open 9/14 as has been rumored, that's let's call it 16 frames. 16x8000=128,000 bodies. [I think that's way over-optimistic but let's just assume.] Now if we assume Sutton's number, and that only 1% of them watch (and that would be a disaster), it is still over three times that many. Now if we further assume that a lot of people who are willing to pay $100 to see it live would also watch it on TV and some part of them are then going to decide that they had seen enough, and that some percentage of potential audience members are still gonna be wary of sitting in a crowded theatre (and that's very real, even among us here) and would opt not to if they could see the same show on TV, we have a lot of risk brought on by the streaming. Not all of that said, we don't know, no one does, but I think the Apple venture, which will basically be parallel to the reopening, is not wise. We shall see but I would not have bet my money on something like this.

Seeing a show live with people around you with real life humans on stage, all in a room together, is a completely different experience than watching anything on your television. Live theater is not television. To think one will replace the other is incredibly stupid. Apples and oranges.

Sutton Ross said: "Seeing a show live with people around you with real life humans on stage, all in a room together, is a completely different experience than watching anything on your television. Live theater is not television. To think one will replace the other is incredibly stupid. Apples and oranges."

I am the last person on earth you have to convince of that. For a year I have been saying that all of the streaming stuff doesn't do much for me. I am also the guy who has been saying that I am not a fan of filming shows for broadcast/streaming for essentially the apples and oranges reason. But it's not the two of us (or many of the rest here) that is the challenge. Rather, you have to sell tickets to the two couples who drive in from Allentown on Indigenous Peoples' Day. They have a menu of let's say a dozen shows to choose from and they are only going to choose one. Do they see one they already saw on TV (Hamilton, of course, being sui generis)? Or something else? That's the risk and while I don't find the need to employ your hyperbolic choice of words, I think it is very unwise. We shall see. As I say I wish them well.

This is the response a cast gets just for walking into their theater just to film their show. Imagine the eruption & energy that will occur on each show's first night back. It'll be something none of us have ever experienced.



https://twitter.com/londontheatrer1/status/1391063037419925509

"From Instagram, it looks like this afternoons filming was done for a socially distanced audience of cast and creative team family members. That would also explain why chatter on the “live” filming has been non existent leading up to/after today’s performance. They likely filmed many runs of the shows and close ups, and will intercut this audience show."

Vote Peron wins the prize (except it wasn't even mostly family members). Yes, they have been filming all week, and during that time there was a very limited audience

"CFA has been filming without an audience this whole time, though, right? Who's cheering them on in the video?"

See above. What you saw in the video was the audience waiting to get inside, Lizzie

"This was staged, it's not a genuine reaction."

You are SO wrong about that, Tag. You think these people were not genuinely thrilled to see a cast return to Broadway, knowing that they were going to see them perform in a very short time?

That's a pretty extreme level of cynicism

The people cheering the cast on were guests that were waiting to see the show. They had to be vaxxed and tested. They were theater community members and the like. Those people were waiting outside to go in to see a Broadway show. It wasn't as if they got bussed in to cheer for pay. That was a genuine response.

...and no, it really wasn't "staged", but of course someone was filming the reaction.

Updated On: 5/9/21 at 10:25 PM

Again: "you are both right, at least to an extent. It WAS staged, but the thrill was genuine for the friends and families." These truths will not change by repetition.

ghostlight2 said: "eta: that's never stopped anyone here before, Hogan :)"

Now THAT is absolutely true.

Updated On: 5/10/21 at 10:15 AM

ACL2006 said: "based on their re-opening video;Jenn is Beverly, Q Smith is Hannah& Emily Walton is Janice. Looks like all swings were in attendance for the filming & rehearsals.Also, there's been no evidence if Chad Kimball did this or is still apart of the show."

Someone posted on Tony LePage's Facebook page that she was in the audience on Saturday and that she thought he (LePage) "was fantastic in the show."

**ETA

So LePage did perform in the show in some capacity, but it's not clear in what capacity. In a perfect world he will have replaced Kimball for the recording (though I don't think any of the CFA understudies are any good, but that's neither here nor there).

Updated On: 5/11/21 at 09:28 PM

Fosse76 said:
So LePage did perform in the show in some capacity, but it's not clear in what capacity. In a perfect world he will have replaced Kimball for the recording (though I don't think any of the CFA understudies are any good, but that's neither here nor there)."



So from a source that works saw the show, LePage did play Garth/Kevin T. Chad Kimball was not part of the filming.

Updated On: 5/11/21 at 09:33 AM

Ah yes, wanting someone to not work due to his opinions that differ from yours as opposed to being too busy.

K.