Disney Theatrical prez says everything you think you know about the ticket-buying public is wrong

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 3:54pm

Disney’s Tom Schumacher says most of our truisms (and especially Mr ______'s) about audience make up today is WRONG!

Who is buying tickets?

Well, they’re often in different categories. If you take a slightly longer view, more like 25 years, people who live in Manhattan have increased by 32 percent. What we call the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, the outside people who travel in through a tunnel or over a bridge, the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, they’re only up 12 percent. Everyone thinks that’s who’s fielding it. Not really. Foreign tourists are up over 350 percent. Domestic tourists are up over 100 percent. People under 18 are up again over 100 percent. But here’s the one that fascinates me: In the last 20, 25-ish years, people over 65 are up a couple of hundred percent because Broadway became a safer environment. Therefore, you have kids who are coming now and senior citizens who come.


that's the state of the world today

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 4:01pm

It's a shame ______ won't see this thread. I hope he randomly starts a new thread about this in a few minutes.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 4:04pm

Oh he won't. It's not a Fox News bullet point!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 4:23pm

The "kids" are the children of BroadwayWorld.

We have spawned them, we have nourished them, we have schooled them.

They are children who have listened to us.

[After Eight]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 4:39pm

"We have spawned them, we have nourished them, we have schooled them. "

Indoctrinated them, brainwashed them, and warped them --- or at least tried to.

"They are children who have listened to us."

For their own sake, not too many, let us pray.

Actually, even one would be one too many.

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 5:26pm

Feel the flow,
Hear what's happening:
We're what's happening!
Long ago
All we had was that funny feeling,
Saying someday we'd send 'em reeling,
Now it looks like we can! ?
Someday just began ?
It's our heads on the block.
Give us room and start the clock.
Our time coming through,
Me and you, pal,
Me and you!
Me and you!

Stephen Sondheim- Merrily We Roll Along

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 5:31pm

Yeah, senior citizens and kids are coming all over Broadway.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 5:42pm

Grow up, AfterEight. Just GROW UP.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 7:10pm

When he says the seniors and the kids are coming, is he talking our monied gays and their boytoys?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 7:17pm

There are plenty of daddies with other daddies.