Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 needs to be revived and back on Broadway!! — Page 3

I wanted to love Ragtime on Broadway, but that original production was a schizophrenic mess.  It kept bouncing from SPECTACLE to minimalistic with bizarre scenes often being lost in a vast empty space.  Based on its staging and choreography, Crime of the Century was aptly titled (and probably a more fitting title for the musical itself, come to think of it).  At least the revival had a more coherent vision.

haterobics said: "Jarethan said: "I read somewhere that all three versions lost money, although some creative accounting pushed the losses from the first two runs into the budget for the Broadway version of the show."

While true, I don't think that is necessarily creative or rare. But it does beg the question why people sayit should have just stayed off-Broadway, when it also lost money and closed there. Unless it closed for reasons other thanticket sales?"

I'll bet that it was always too expensive to run for the size of the venue.  'Gee, we're losing money here because there's not enough seats...let's move to a larger theatre' without 'and how many seats will we need to sell at the larger theatre AT NON-PREMIUM prices, in order to breakeven each week and return our investment.  Can't have one without the other and succeed, as they proved.

haterobics said: "There's a pretty crazy Comet group on Facebook where you'd fit right in..."

I was banned from this group, and I love the show 

schubox said: "I was banned from this group, and I love the show"

I was nearly banned once, back when I kept saying the show was going to close, and they said I was being too negative. As soon as the show closed, I left the group.