Robert F.X. Sillerman on Theater Talk talking about Young Frankenstein 4/12/08

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 10:15pm

Did anyone watch this? I did a search and didn't see anything on it. The interview is up on their website. Interesting. he talks about the high ticket price and how he regrets doing it when he did and also talks about casting shows via reality shows. And he also talks about why the show's grosses are not reported.

http://www.cuny.tv/series/theatertalk/listen.lasso?-database=CUNYPROG&-response=detail2.lasso&-table=webprogdetail2&-sortField=TapeDate&-sortOrder=descending&-op=eq&SeriesTitle=Theater%20Talk&-op=neq&Real_av=%3d%3d&-op=lte&TapeDate=12%2f31%2f2008&-op=gte&TapeDate=1%2f1%2f2008&-maxRecords=1&-search

Updated On: 4/16/08 at 10:15 PM

[amalou]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 11:10pm

A lot of what he said made sense, but what I found interesting was that he said he didn't want to publish grosses because he thinks it's wrong for people to try and focus on how poorly something is doing. He doesn't want people to hope for something to fail I take it? "Everybody is looking into everyone else's pocket" or something like that.

But...isn't that what they did with Pirate Queen? They took advantage of falling grosses to announce they'd be taking the Hilton before Pirate Queen posted a closing notice. I just find that a little hypocritical.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 11:41pm

I didn't even think about that. May be a good point. But I think he was pretty honest about things.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 11:55pm

What a boring man!

Susan Haskins: Stop tripping over your words.

Mikey Riedel: You are adorable as ever!

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 12:04am

I didn't find him to be boring really. I thought that at first but I think it is just his speaking voice. And haskins always seems to trip over words. I really like Riedel on this show. And I do think he is adorable and kinda cute! I want to know where that ring on his left finger went. He is not wearing it this season. (Does that make me a stalker?!!) I thought Sillermans take on pricing for tickets was interesting. Lowering them in mid February.

Updated On: 4/16/08 at 12:04 AM

[Raspberry]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 12:47am

Wow. Sooooo many analogies. And that woman is such an awful little rat--I don't think I could be interviewed by her for five minutes without slapping her.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 1:03am

She does tend to trip over words but I like her. And she is the producer of the show.

[Raspberry]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 1:23am

She's just so obnoxious and confrontational in her questioning, which is especially annoying when her facts are just plain incorrect. I know she's the producer, but I wish she would stay off camera. It's like she's constantly getting in the way of the otherwise intelligible, interesting, and cohesive interview that Riedel usually seems to be conducting on his own.

Also, do you think you could edit your original post and replace that lengthy URL with some hyperlink text that won't stretch out the page so?

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 1:42am

I don't know how to do that and it isn't stretching out my page.

Well we all have our opinions. I like her.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 2:12am

His idea for a show is stupid, Your 45, and can sing how about Mama Rose.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 10:02am

Do you mean his reality show idea?

[broadwayrocks2]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 4:05pm

wow

[broadwayrocks2]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 4:18pm

tuesdays house was 1721.thats about 300 more the a regular house.