New York Gave These Broadway Shows Millions — And They Flopped Anyway
New York Gave These Broadway Shows Millions — And They Flopped Anyway
mitchern
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/03
#2New York Gave These Broadway Shows Millions — And They Flopped Anyway
Posted: 3/20/26 at 12:43pm
It always helps when the show isn't absolutely horrible.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#3New York Gave These Broadway Shows Millions — And They Flopped Anyway
Posted: 3/20/26 at 1:28pm
When a show is terrible and/or audiences aren’t interested enough to buy tickets, no amount of money guarantees a successful show. Global socialite Bunny Meyers could invest $350M in a show and that means zero to audiences.
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#4New York Gave These Broadway Shows Millions — And They Flopped Anyway
Posted: 3/20/26 at 1:36pm
I mean. What do they expect to do? Have New York State reps come to backers auditions and determine if they want to provide the funding or not? More arts funding is always good.
Updated On: 3/20/26 at 01:36 PM
#5New York Gave These Broadway Shows Millions — And They Flopped Anyway
Posted: 3/20/26 at 1:48pm
I hate when articles say things like "but revenue this year is up more than ever". Well sure if you are talking about GROSS revenue, which they are. But the cost of mounting shows has drastically increased. We have more shows than ever in the "million dollar club" of grosses each week. But that doesn't mean anything these days, when big musicals have weekly break-evens of $900 to 1.1 million. If your gross is $1.3 million but you have only put about $200k toward recouping...does it matter that the gross today is higher than what it would have been in 2019? Using "revenue is up!" as an excuse to cut the program is an incredibly surface level take meant to paint industry members as greedy mooches. In the era of $25 million+ musicals, I'm perfectly fine with the tax program continuing to help an industry that supports so many New York jobs and related businesses.
#6New York Gave These Broadway Shows Millions — And They Flopped Anyway
Posted: 3/20/26 at 2:08pm
I can't believe the government wasted money funding Lempicka! Anyways, back to spending $2 billion per day on the child porn distraction war.
edit: to put that into perspective, that's more than one Lempicka credit ($2.6 million) every two minutes
#7New York Gave These Broadway Shows Millions — And They Flopped Anyway
Posted: 3/20/26 at 2:35pm
There are countless tax breaks and credits for things that are money-losers. Reducing everything to a monetary value reduces the value of everything.
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