Most expensive shows of all time. - Page 2
Most expensive shows of all time.
Scott Briefer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/04
#25Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 10:07amIf I'm not mistaken, KA in Las Vegas, at approximately 200 million, is considered to be the most expensive production of all times.
leefowler
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/04
#26Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 11:29am
KA in Las vegas actually LOOKS like it cost $200 million.
Assuming Spider-Man looks like a $30 million show, where did the other $35 million go? Mismanagement? Hubris? Ego?
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#27Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 11:38am
Well, people have been paid for several years on the pre-production work. And there's been a lot of it.
Who knows what the license cost?
Who knows how much Bono/The Edge cost?
How much the technical development cost?
And they've been renting the theatre for a year (or so).
Not every dollar is "seen" on stage. Whether they got their money's worth is a different question.
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#28Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 11:41amShrek was actuall around $45 million.... which is a LOT.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#29Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 11:59amI remember seeing Frankenstein. I still have the color Playbill from it. After seing Waiting For Godot, I saw Glover at a Q & A afterwards. I mentioned Frankenstein to him & he smileed and said "oh you were one of them".
#30Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 11:59amI still have a Poster and some flyers for Lord of the Rings musical in London which says its "The most expensive musical undertaking of all time." I was told by some coworkers it was 30+ million dollars. Shrek's initial investment was only 25 million. So you could say that Shrek was the most expensive on Broadway, since LOTR never came to New York. And we're only talking about musicals here, not 'Cirque' shows which can go much, much higher.
#31Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 12:02pmI can see "KA" costing that much. I saw it last year and was blown away just walking into the theater. It is a massive show. They even have speakers built into the seats.
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#33Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 12:08pm
Well if you are including Cirque shows like KA, I'd say the most expensive is The House of Dancing Water in Macau, at about $250 million. And every penny is on display.
http://thehouseofdancingwater.com/en/#/wow-factors
Scott Briefer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/04
#34Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 12:13pmKA is an amazing show. And, when you consider that mounting a show in Las Vegas is substantially cheaper than New York, KA's $200 million buys a lot. Of course, they did do extensive work on the theater space itself. There was a fair amount of excavating necessary to accommodate the various hydraulic stages and that costs mega bucks. Still, watching KA is truly awe inspiring. Robert Lepage - like Julie Taymor - is a visionary. He really is an amazing director.
hpeabody930
Featured Actor Joined: 9/8/08
#35Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 12:16pmOn the cheaper end of things, the original production of Odets' "Waiting For Lefty" cost $8...
Scott Briefer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/04
#36Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 12:34pmThanks for the link to, The House of Dancing Water. It looks really wonderful. Not sure if it tops KA though. Although there was extensive remodeling done to accommodate KA, basically, they did have a large theater and it's infrastructure to start with. It seems that they include the cost of building the theater into The House of the Dancing Water. Either way, they're both huge spectacles currently playing the planet. Woohoo for spectacle!
#37Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 9:54pmjust wondering...if spiderman does tour it would have to be an arena tour correct? how much would that cost?
#38Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 10:54pm
If I'm not mistaken, TABOO is up there as well. I remember reading Rosie O'Donnell invested at least $10 Million into the project.
Also,
Jekyll & Hyde and Young Frankenstein
#39Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/5/10 at 11:35pm
Jekyll and Hyde was expensive?
Judging from the DVD they had a basic set with pieces flown on/off, a small orchestra and very little special effects...so I thought it would be around $10 million or so...but i could be wrong
#40Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/6/10 at 9:26amPBS has been running the Cirque "Flowers in the Desert" special and "KA" is featured along with 4 of their other shows in Vegas. They show the "Battle Wall", the shipwreck and the "slave cage".
#41Most expensive shows of all time.
Posted: 12/6/10 at 9:44amWhen LOTR cloes here in the UK it was reported that with the finacial losses in Canada and London it lost over 50 million
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