Riedel on new plays already in danger — Page 2

theatregoer3, the rationale in your post makes no sense. You think Riedel is not covering the Isherwood situation because he fears for his own job--but Isherwood was fired because of his conduct, not as an effect of downsizing. And if the news that Riedel covers in his column can be easily gleaned through social media without him, wouldn't it be more valuable for him to try and break an actual theater news story?

The Sweat artwork is so ugly and has the wrong tone.

The Sweat logo/art/photo (what do you even call it?) looks like they already had the cover of the published version and then just made it larger.

But it does not at all capture the play, or why people should see it. Yes, it's set in a bar. But it's not about a bar. It's about the disintegration of American manufacturing worker class. It's an extremely worthy and topical thing to explore and you would never get that from that photo.

Would you guess that the characters even work in a factory- the thing that fuels all of the action in the play- based on that photo? No!

Updated On: 2/10/17 at 10:50 AM

The Sweat artwork honestly makes me mad whenever it pops up on social media or whatever for me. It's so wrong in tone and does nothing to make anybody say, A) "This is an ad for a Broadway show" or, more importantly, B) "I should go see this Broadway show."

I said that I wasn't comfortable posting specifics from the situation because they haven't been confirmed. But I think it's common knowledge by now that Isherwood was let go due to matters concerning his professional comportment. As it's already been mentioned on several other threads, I didn't think I was saying anything new there.

Updated On: 2/10/17 at 11:15 AM

In May I have tickets for Six Degrees of Separation & Doll House Part 2. Is there any chance they don't make it until May if this report is true?

canadian fan said: "In May I have tickets for Six Degrees of Separation & Doll House Part 2. Is there any chance they don't make it until May if this report is true?"

There's always that chance, if either spectacularly flops, but at this time I would assume your tickets are safe.

Broadway Joe said: "I'm surprised he didn't mention the actual amount of shows opening. From Feb to April it's like 20 shows that are opening, that's more then I remember in the past bunch of seasons. I try to see everything but I try to do it cheap since I generally don't care where I sit and most of the shows don't have reasonably priced tickets at the top of the theatre. Sweat and indecent are the only ones below 40 bucks.

Sweat has tickets under $40?

Btw, Significant Other and A Doll's House Part 2 also have tickets under $40.

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little_sally said: "

Sweat has tickets under $40?

Btw, Significant Other and A Doll's House Part 2 also have tickets under $40.

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Sorry, I looked at my list wrong the play that goes wrong($30) does not sweat, I had looked up the cheapest prices for after the shows open and unless I was looking in the wrong spot significant other was $49 and a dolls house was $60







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little_sally said: "Broadway Joe said: "little_sally said: "

Sweat has tickets under $40?

Btw, Significant Other and A Doll's House Part 2 also have tickets under $40.

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Sorry, I looked at my list wrong the play that goes wrong($30) does not sweat, I had looked up the cheapest prices for after the shows open and unless I was looking in the wrong spot significant other was $49 and a dolls house was $60

A Doll's House has a code for $39 rear mezz seats. Significant Other has one for $34 rear mezz seats (this is how I'm seeing the play.)






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Ah gotcha, the prices I listed are the face value of the shows. I think some of these should be priced like this already without needing a code.

"Ah gotcha, the prices I listed are the face value of the shows. I think some of these should be priced like this already without needing a code. "



Particularly Significant Other should be promoting affordable pricing, since they're looking for the millennial audience. I don't see why they can't offer cheap tickets at face value in the back of the mezz.

AC126748 said: "theatregoer3, the rationale in your post makes no sense. You think Riedel is not covering the Isherwood situation because he fears for his own job--but Isherwood was fired because of his conduct, not as an effect of downsizing. And if the news that Riedel covers in his column can be easily gleaned through social media without him, wouldn't it be more valuable for him to try and break an actual theater news story?"

My bad. I was unaware of the situation surrounding his departure. I thought it was part of the culture layoffs they've had over there. That said, I still stand by what I said about Riedel's column being irrelevant.