Highest Grossing Musical of All Time?- Page 2

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/17/11 at 5:20pm

Movies have been shown on television since the beginning of television.

[Barney Stinson]

Posted: 4/17/11 at 6:15pm

Lame nitpicking (typical). You know what I meant, in fact I even stated that movies were on TV. But not nearly as quickly or as often as they were once stations like HBO came out.

Gone With the Wind, for instance, didn't appear on TV until 1976 (on HBO).

The Wizard of Oz didn't appear on TV until 1956, 17 years after it was made.

The Sound of Music didn't air on TV until 1976, 11 years after it was released.

Even Star Wars wasn't shown on TV until 7 years after it originally came out (1977-1984).

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/17/11 at 7:14pm

Whatever, lady. You're the one would said the only way to see movies was in the theater, and that you guessed movies were shown on tv occasionally.

[jasonf]

Posted: 4/17/11 at 7:26pm

I wonder if there is some formula that be created -- something including number of tickets sold and cost. Then again, there's another significant difference with theater that doesn't really affect most movies - the size of the house. If the Majestic was bigger than it is now, would Phantom's rate be even higher? How does the size of the house affect the overall ticket sales since the actual amount POSSIBLE to sell is limited?

Could a show that ran equally as long as another in a smaller house, at the same price, count as less?

I honestly don't know if that would have any affect or not, but it's another possible piece of the equation...

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 4/17/11 at 7:32pm

I think that all depends on the show, jasonf. The very large majority shows do not sell out consistently night after night, so being in a bigger theatre would not really provide a bigger bump in number of tickets sold for the most part. Then you have a show like Wicked which has had very few weeks that they have not been at 100% capacity, and I believe that it would probably be able to keep that trend even in a bigger theatre (which I think the Foxwoods is the only theatre on Broadway with a higher seating capacity than the Gershwin).