HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season — Page 7

gordi_92 said: "How do they handle this on Broadway with Shows that are kinda empty. Do they let people change to better seats? In germany sometimes if a Performance doesnt sell out well they just close the balcony and everyone who had a blacony Ticket is asigned (or can pick) a different seat f.e. in the mezzanine sometimes even orchestra. Just wondering."

Back when Frozen was still on Broadway, they'd close the balcony when the show wasn't selling well. 

If you see an empty seat, wait until intermission and then ask an usher if you can move. Do not move until intermission because someone in that seat could come in late. 

With that said, there's no official thing theaters do when the show isn't selling well. 

this just reminds me of all of those middling 00's shows that would come onto the scene, run for maybe 6 to 8 months and then over the course of the next ten years make a buck on high school and regional productions

In another time, maybe 20 years ago? This type of jukebox show would have at least had a fair go. This just feels like an artifact of a pre 08' recession broadway.

Updated On: 3/29/24 at 02:39 PM

GoldenGiggery said: "BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Truly bonkers that Gutenberg had to give up the Jones for this..."

That's not what happened though. They were offered the chance to extend, but Josh Gad decided not to, so they stuck with the original close."

Yes they could have extended at most two weeks due to the load-in and load out schedule which he felt wasn't worth it but there was absolutely a universe of replacements if the show had the ability to become a open run which it couldn't because the theater was committed to this and the producers og HORNR didn't want a different theater

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "GoldenGiggery said: "BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Truly bonkers that Gutenberg had to give up the Jones for this..."

That's not what happened though. They were offered the chance to extend, but Josh Gad decided not to, so they stuck with the original close."

Yes they could have extended at most two weeks due to the load-in and load out schedule which he felt wasn't worth it but there was absolutely a universe of replacements if the show had the ability to become a open run which it couldn't because the theater was committed to this and the producers og HORNR didn't want a different theater"

 

False.  If Gad and Rannells had been able and willing to extend, Bob Wankel would have let them keep the JEJ and made it worth the HEART producers' while to take another building.

 

It was THAT EXACT period of time, when I thought I had a cleaver idea and said to myself, "You should write a jukebox musical that's based on the music of Huey Lewis & The News!" HAHAHA!