I think you understand my point once again, but just choose to go off on a tangent cause you find yourself intellectually stimulating. which is kinda cute No, I didn't understand your point because you're trying to create a trend when there simply isn't one. You can say "But, but , but...LYSISTRATA JONES!!!" all you want and it still doesn't wash. It received strong reviews in Dallas, so it went Off-Broadway. It received strong reviews Off-Broadway, so it transferred to Broadway. It received strong reviews on Broadway, but it didn't sell. Nothing about that indicates that the producers should have predicted a flop because the show did not originate in a city you personally approve. That's ridiculous.
jUst because a show is a critical hit doesn't mean it will sell tix. I never implied otherwise. Lots of critical hits flop. Lots of critical flops become hits. But there is nothing that indicates a show flops because it came from Texas. Tourists are not researching the city of origin and the show's path to Broadway.
When producers start thinking that out of town reviews from places that are NOT chicago, san fran, seattle, even LA Jolla, where out of towns are regular, mean something (like investing millions of bucks because john johnson from the houston register thinks Toxic is gooey fun) thats when shows lose all their money. So, you discourage A) Most cities from attempting to produce Broadway musicals? B)Just shows you don't like? C) Just cities you don't like? I'm thinking the truth is actually B, but your Fox News approach to the subject is truly bizarre.
i mean, you could have started Little Women in a crappy town and those reviews could have been amazing so you bring it in!..oh wait..it did..Durham NC. And Catch Me if You Can started in Seattle, Little Mermaid in Denver, Sweet Smell of Success in Chicago, All Shook Up in Chicago, Addams Family in Chicago, tons of shows from London...OH! You're right, The Scottsboro Boys opened in Minneapolis. It never should have been produced on Broadway. Coming from Minneapolis is precisely why EVERYONE said it flopped. Seriously, you're not making a case at all no matter how cute you think I am. And I'm VERY cute.
Doing your "out of town" in a place that doesn't regularly get hopeful broadway shows and relying on those reviews to decide whether or not your show will be a hit in NYC is ignorant and problematic. And what does that have to do with Houston? You really should do some research on Houston theatre sometime. You can start with the Tony-winning Houston Grand Opera or the Tony-winning Alley Theatre (where the Tony-winning team is directing some Tony nominees in a show receiving strong reviews that should not be given a chance for some reason you made up because you don't like the show) or take a look into the faculty (past and present including Stuart Ostrow, Edward Albee, Jose Quintero, and Sir Peter Hall for starters) of the University of Houston theatre department, or open up the January issue of American Theatre magazine and read the feature on Rebecca Udden and Main Street Theatre. The fourth largest city in the country is not as small as you might think.
As for Dallas, I don't like the city, but that has nothing to do with whether a show produced there should or should not go to Broadway. The one and only reason a show should go to Broadway is if producers and investors want it to go to Broadway. That's it. Whether it becomes a hit or a flop is up to the audience (and usually a crackerjack marketing team). And a show doesn't flop on Broadway simply because you don't think it shouldn't be on Broadway.
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