Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Fiyero13
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/07
#1Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:20amNever saw a show that was less than half empty but I'm sure there has been some
#2re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:24amI saw the tour of Drowsy recently and the mezzanine was COMPLETELY empty, and orchestra was only about 3/4 full. It was really sad. I think that the venue was way too big for the show, however.
#2re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:25am
I saw Spring Awakening in previews and the mezzanine was almost empty except for half of the seats in the first two rows of center mezzanine. I'm not sure what the orchestra looked like, though.
Updated On: 6/13/08 at 11:25 AM
#3re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:25am
"The Drowsey Chaperone" on Broadway last year was about 2/3 full.
"Legally Blonde" had quite a few empty seats the last time I saw it.
"Wicked" in Chicago was pretty sparse when I saw it last October.
Like you said, I don't think I've seen one less than 1/2 full.
#4re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:26amRecently at glory days there was about 50 people in the theater.
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#5re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:28amThe Michael Mayer production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". The producers kept stupidly changing the schedule to try to accommodate the audience they expected to get (or hoped they'd get!) They scheduled an 11:30 curtain on Saturdays & inexplicably scheduled the 1st one with almost no advance notice. There were 127 people in the Ambassador Theatre that morning. 127. Scary.
#6re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:29am
I've never seen show in NY that wasn't almost sold out.
However, tours are a different story. The worst example was a the Jane Curtains/David Dukes tour of Love Letters in the early 90s. It was at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta which is a cavern, seating 4000+. There was probably less than five hundred in the audience scattered all over the place.
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#7re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:39amThe Woman in White during the subway strike... seriously there must have been like maybe 300 people in the theatre.
#8re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:48amI wasn't there, but my friend who saw PRYMATE said there were maybe 100 people in the audience...
Fiyero13
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#9re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:54amDrmark, i said half empty, not half full, yes i'm the pessimist :)
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#10re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:56amGLORY DAYS matinee preview audience.... it was awful.
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#11re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:56amI was in the mezzanine for The Wedding Singer. I never felt so alone in my whole life.
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Posted: 6/13/08 at 11:58amMary Poppins on Halloween.
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#13re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 12:01pm
About 100 people (if even that many) for a Wednesday matinee of Eubie! 2/14/1979 and a rather small audience for a performance of Side Show I saw on Halloween 1997.
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Updated On: 6/13/08 at 12:01 PM
#14re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 12:01pmSpring Awakening's third preview. Five people in the mezzanine, and about 5 rows filled in the orchestra.
#15re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 12:10pm
A wednesday afternoon at the Into the Woods revival near the end of the run.
six or seven rows in the Orchestra were filled, and a smattering of people who came downstairs scattered around.
The audience seemed uncomfortable, and the cast couldn't get the rhythm going without feedback.
It really was brutal.
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#16re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 12:13pm
Not Broadway, but I went to see FORBIDDEN PLANET in the West End and there were less than 25 people in the audience!
It was eerie.
#19re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 12:31pm
In the West End, 'Rent: Remixed' had a deservedly small audience the night I went. I'd say about a third full, but I couldn't be sure; didn't want to make eye contact with anyone else there! XP
#20re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 12:33pmmaya, there were some people in the mezz that night, just not many, remember?
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#21re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 12:37pmYeah, like 2 people. Practically empty.
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#22re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 12:50pmI'd like to hear from someone who saw The Blonde in the Thunderbird.
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#23re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 1:37pm
I once saw that midget who played a lawyer on Ally McBeal and the doll on "Passions" at Kiss Me Kate...
Ohhh... I thought you said "smallest audience member..."
#24re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 1:40pmI've never seen a show that was not sold out, but I once did a performance of "Ragtime" for about 60 people.
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#25re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 1:58pmI saw Thoroughly Modern Millie during a snowstorm when Delta Burke and Sutton Foster were both out-- they were lucky if the theater was 1/3 full, but we got bumped to orchestra seats.
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#26re: Smallest broadway audience you've ever seen?
Posted: 6/13/08 at 2:04pm
RENT before Adam and Anthony came back last summer.
Cry Baby at it's 3rd preview.
Passing Strange's orchestra was only half full the first time I saw it.
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