Closing Shows on Broadway

WOW... this season MANY new broadway shows closed...

Bobbi Boland, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Laughing Room Only and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

As an amateur playwright:

Most plays written nowadays are not worth $100, but then again most musicals really aren't either. What's really needed are profitable venues that aren't Broadway, that's all.

-Wayne

I don't think I would pay $100 to see a play, when I can see an excellent play here at our regional theatre(Geva Theatre Center).

I regularly read this board and "Talkin' Broadway" primarily to get news about what's going on in town at the various theatres and news about what's coming. Unfortunately I DON'T share most of the members passion for musicals. Some of them are all right - but they're never my first choice. The lack of plays on Broadway now is heartbreaking but the absolutely grand fact is that New York has OFF-BROADWAY and OFF-OFF-BROADWAY!

I do think that spending $100 for a play is too much. I also think that spending $100 for a musical is too much. In fact, I'm sure it's causing the slow death of live theatre. Fortunately I can still go to an off-Broadway house and see some wonderful theatre for much, much less than that. (Talking Heads at the Minetta Lane was a recent, WONDERFUL, example of this.)

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