Living on Love! — Page 7

lol Hogan why do you always say snarky ass comments! You act like people on Broadway don't know how the biz is! Lord! What happened with the bottle?

Jordan, are you sexy in real life?

Pinto, why don't you focus on what's really important here - this flop of a play.

Pinto, I do not "always" make snarky ass comments but I do make my share. People on Broadway sometimes know how bad a show is doing, and sometimes don't. Obviously, it's not cool to bring talk of doom backstage when there is performance to put on, and the reported comment sounded like someone who was not facing reality. It happens. The bottle, per the comment above that you apparently missed, was empty. That's something that would get a props person and maybe even an ASM written up, but it's hardly enough to get more than a laugh from a critic who was already bored to death by the awful excuse for a Broadway show.

What are you talking about hogan?? Who was not facing reality?? I literally have no idea what you are saying !!

Pinto, the reality to which I am referring is that the show sucks, and that critics are not going to bash it for a props dept goof. And no, I am not, nor have i ever been Ben Brantley, or Ben Bradlee, or Ben Affleck, or Ben Stiller, or Ben Folds, or Ben Vereen, or Ben Kingley or, most especially, Ben Gazzara, who suffers from the additional complication of being dead.

I saw the matinee yesterday. I thought it had a high end community theatre feel. The set looked like it could be used year after year for a string of similar comedies. The stars hit most of their moments but stumbled over several lines. There was a disproportionate amount of cheering at the end compared to the quality of what had actually taken place.

I didn't think it was bad. I actually really enjoyed it. It's the perfect summer theatre festival for rich people in the middle of nowhere show. It has absolutely no business being on Broadway. If I had paid any amount of serious money for it I would've been severely disappointed.

"the average ticket price was 32 dollars last week"

Here is the problem with that kind of non-analysis. Can we agree, Pinto, that at $32, the show is by design a flop? (I'll give you the benefit of the correct number, which you inexplicably were incapable of providing: $34.18. At that price, a week yields, at sellout, $293,401.12, less credit card and other off the top charges, which is a substantial six figure number under the nut.) So to suggest that the show is looks like it is worth $32 necessarily suggests that it looks like a failure. But the reality (there's that ugly word you hate to confront rearing its ugly head again!) is that the show is not selling out, and thus the failure is much greater. And a show that is (as you would have it) a failure by design has no place on Broadway. Why is it that you seem to choose the failures (not the underdogs, mind you, but the utter train wrecks) to champion? Is there some pathology we are not aware of that would explain this?

"That's the thing though, the average ticket price was 32 dollars last week. "

Dang I definitely paid more than $32 for my tix I just hope it manages to stay open until I visit NYC end of May!

I hope so too!

Hogan, you out of everybody on this board seems to talk the most about shows closing, and being flops and how they are doing bad at the box office sooo SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPP. go be a pessimist somewhere else please.