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[neonlightsxo]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#50

Posted: 2/10/17 at 1:13pm

Kevin McCollum has some cheap tickets ala Hand to God for Play That Goes Wrong doesn't he? Or maybe that was limited time as well.

[Kad]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#51

Posted: 2/10/17 at 1:19pm

I do recall there being a promotion for very cheap tickets a couple months back for The Play That Goes Wrong.

...though I suspect they will eventually just be giving tickets away...

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[RippedMan]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#52

Posted: 2/10/17 at 1:22pm

The Indecent artwork off-Broadway is so much more compelling than their Broadway counterpoint. And Sweat's is just awful. Such a great play, but you'd never know it. 

[AC126748]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#53

Posted: 2/10/17 at 1:52pm

The Play That Goes Wrong was at one point selling all orchestra and mezzanine seats for $25 and all balcony seats for $15.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[wonderfulwizard11]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#54

Posted: 2/10/17 at 2:12pm

Ah, you're right- I forgot about that offer, my mistake. 

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[macnyc]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#55

Posted: 2/10/17 at 2:21pm

With fees, the Play That Goes Wrong tickets that I bought were about $35. 

[canadian fan]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#56

Posted: 2/10/17 at 2:27pm

Wasn't that a deal just for the previews?

[macnyc]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#57

Posted: 2/10/17 at 2:52pm

Yes, it was for a limited time. I don't remember if there were certain dates you could pick.

[Joviedamian]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#58

Posted: 2/10/17 at 3:01pm

Sadly, this is the main reason why new plays aren't producer more. It's a major financial risk (well, anything is really). I always here "Why aren't there new plays..." this is why!

[HogansHero]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#59

Posted: 2/10/17 at 3:12pm

Joviedamian said: "Sadly, this is the main reason why new plays aren't producer more. It's a major financial risk (well, anything is really). I always here "Why aren't there new plays..." this is why!"

That's preposterous. First of all there are a huge number of plays produced. What you mean is that there are not all that many produced commercially on Broadway, and the answer to that is simple: there is not a broad market for them and they are therefore produced mostly by non-profits, on and off Broadway. Why are there not more operas or ballets produced commercially? What makes it to Broadway commercially are the rarefied breed of play that someone thinks can find an audience and, to a lesser extent, plays that some rich people think ought to be seen there, without regard to any intention of recouping. 

[neonlightsxo]

Riedel on new plays already in danger#60

Posted: 2/10/17 at 3:40pm

Everything is a risk. Getting out of bed every day is a risk.