@consistency Abbade's comment to which I was responding was a common factual error: the sell-to date has no significance outside of the box office, and no one would write an actor contract that cuts out on that date because of that date. My prognostications about a show's prospects are, like everyone else's, my opinions, and nothing more (or less). And when I say someone is delusional, that too is my opinion. I've been pretty transparent about that. Sometimes it's worth taking a step back and asking how something written here would be taken if it were said over dinner among friends and acquaintances.
@BroadwayNYC2 I think 99.9% of all recording artists would give their firstborn to have a year like the current one for Usher. No he is not his stable mate Justin Bieber, but I was trying not to be totally silly.
@PThespian I would think you would recognize those quotes as opinions. I thought we'd progressed here beyond the point where every opinion needs an IMHO appended to it. You could be right about a shift in audiences, WOM, etc., but the numbers don't bear it out: they show a softening of demand, even for Groban. Can that be reversed? Maybe. We shal see. P.S. I don't think anyone should be packing their bags just yet. It is important to recall that a lunatic is running the asylum known as the Imperial and the show may well run past the sell-to date and the sell-by date as well-until the production is kicked to the curb by the Shuberts.
