RUBEN & CLAY’S FIRST ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CAROL FAMILY FUN PAGEANT SPECTACULAR REUNION SHOW — Page 11

bryan2 said: "I love all the hate from these people whose only talent is trolling the message boards...This may be something that I have absolutely no interest in but I do respect both men are very talented and if this is what they want to do and someone is going to bankroll it ...go for it....and you trolls need to really get a life just so sad"

YES !!

bryan2 said: "I love all the hate from these people whose only talent is trolling the message boards...This may be something that I have absolutely no interest in but I do respect both men are very talented and if this is what they want to do and someone is going to bankroll it ...go for it....and you trolls need to really get a life just so sad"

Who's trolling? I, and many others, simply stated that there was no way this would make money. We didn't bash their talent, we said our opinions on the issues this show was going to have (and now IS having) from a producers/money making standpoint.

Then someone involved in the production started to shrill lies about the show and we took up arms against someone coming to this board and trying to sell their production through lies/delusions.

Many of us have a pretty good life, actually! Mine is full of laughter, creating in the arts, and fun! I am also lucky to make most of my money through artistic undertakings. BroadwayWorld is a part of my life because it connects to my craft/vocation.

But I digress..

if anyone is trolling, it is the member of Clay & Ruben production team that has been sabotaging their own show through the spreading of lies/the attacking of potential ticket buyers for calling out their lies.

Kad said: "The house for the first performance next week is dismal. Maybe a third of the seats are filled. Maybe. Everyone in the entire mezz alone could comfortably fit in one section of the seating in the front mezz itself."

They've barely sold 1000 tickets. Apparently they're going to deluge the morning talk shows with Clay and Ruben to try and drive-up sales.

Can you imagine Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood doing this instead?



Nope, but then there's the wee little problem that they aren't friends or even like each other.

Updated On: 11/29/18 at 04:40 PM

MassiveMeGo said: "Can you imagine Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood doing this instead?



Nope, but then there's the wee little problem that they aren't friends or even like each other."

To paraphrase a quote from Velma Kelly in the movie adaptation of Chicago, "[Show business] is one business where that doesn't matter." But Clay, if you got some more tea, feel free to share.

MassiveMeGo said: "Don't hold out too long, Soddomite, its only a 3 week run."

you'll be dropping comps soon so that you don't have to play to empty houses, i'm not worried!

ScottyDoesn'tKnow2 said: "How do comp tickets work? Is it done through those guys screaming at me on the streets asking me if I want to see a free comedy show?"

I depends.

I'm, luckily, in a position where I have friends in higher positions of power/influence than I am in. So comp tickets, for me, usually start with me being in the city and a friend texting me and saying, "hey, I just got comps for ______ tonight! Wanna come with me?"

But there are papering sites (though they've all lost the splendor of their yesteryears) and I have a feeling that tickets for this will be handed out at the box office (ala Home For The Holidays).

I've always imaged how insulted I'd feel if I'd bought tickets for a show at full price only to learn that the box office was handing them out like candy for free. But c'est la vie!

Updated On: 11/29/18 at 06:18 PM

Simply put:

Things like Clay/Ruben and Home For The Holidays can't find audiences because there is no audience to find.

Broadway ticket prices are a luxury. At an average of $100 a ticket, people can spend twelve hours at Disney World for the price of two hours in theatre.

You have to give the people shows they want in order to find a success.

No one wanted to spend $100 on Home for The Holidays, a school christmas pageant for failed D- list singers, when they could spend $100 to see an actual Broadway musical/play. The same is 100% true for Clay/Ruben. Just because YOU want your show to be on Broadway doesn't mean the ticket buying public wants to pay to see it.

You have to give audiences something worth spending the money on. No one is going to NYC, as a tourist, to visit Broadway and spending a night seeing Clay/Ruben when they could take their family to The Lion King for the same price. Why would they? And the local Broadway fans would rather just sit it out than pay to see a masturbatory holiday concert for D list singers.

If audiences don't want to pay Broadway prices for a show, there is no way the show becomes a success on Broadway. Projects like Clay/Ruben, Home For The Holidays, and Rocktopia reek of the fact that they only exist to stroke a performers ego. Audiences are smart and can pick up on that.

Wait did TDF just change the price to $33 to $49? HAHA

Does anyone have a code for this? TIA

You won't need a code.