>>IF they were making money off-Broadway they should have just kept the show there and not gone to the expense and risk of a Broadway transfer. If that were a viable scenario, it would make more sense to re-open off-Broadway. But even that seems an unlikely prospect at this point. <<
I couldn't agree with you more. I was having a discussion with a school colleague about this. They "could" have made it to Broadway (in the storyline that is), or heck, left it Off-B and still had the show playing. She argued that the story was real so it would have made no sense. I beg to differ. Just because a story takes place in Mars doesn't mean it has to be staged there. So they didn't make it to Broadway but opened at a theatre Off-Broadway and were successful! That's great and the show would have eventually re-couped.
Of course, the producers knew what kind of risk they were taking and a few shows (In the Heights, Ave Q, etc.) had done the transfer and were successful.
But considering the size of the cast and A set, people were not out to pay full-price! I heard people saying that the TKTS price were also expensive!
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler
