THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN coming to Broadway

I saw this brilliant piece of art last Fall. This is so exciting that more people will be able to see this!

this is exciting but let me tell you after the last year this is not at all going to find a audience with out of towners looking for something fun and mindless

^ Correct.

Would this do better at a smaller venue like NYTW or St Ann's Warehouse? Will it attract enough ticket buyers who pay full price to be profitable? Is it way too soon for any shows to be talking about Fall 2021, when other experts are saying Spring 2022 or beyond? How many people will feel comfortable being in a theater in Fall 2021, assuming it's even allowed by the Governor?

I swear Taye Diggs did a reading of this at some point, wonder if they are keeping the regional company intact or aiming to replace some roles with bolder names

HogansHero said: "LightsOut90 said: "this is exciting but let me tell you after the last year this isnot at all going to find a audience with out of towners looking for something fun and mindless"

Considering that everyone pretty much agrees that tourism will be slow to return (see article highlighted in another post on this very page), Broadway 2021(?)-23 is going to be focused on what locals will go to see."

...and, in any case, plenty of tourists are not looking for "fun and mindless." My occasional reminder that New Yorkers are not the only people with taste and an interest in being challenged.

In my experience, folks in this business refer to tourists as a subset of visitors to New York, and yes that subset has a pejorative connotation. But at the same time, it is a subset without which Broadway would not be what it is. You can look at the stats of what shows tourists buy tickets for and you should quickly understand the conflicted relationship. But no one labors under the impression that everyone visiting New York is some kind of bumpkin. When Robert Falls comes to town, no one thinks he is a tourist, and the same goes for the many out-of-towners on this board who come looking for challenging theatre. But the fact is, all of those good people are eclipsed by the people needed to keep Phantom et al afloat. You could say the same thing about all of the other attractions in New York. Tourists are lining up at Olive Garden and Red Lobster even though they could easily have some great food they won't find back home without walking very far. Out of Towners are in abundance at Le Bernardin, but no one calls it a tourist restaurant. The point is, the critical mass depends on the return of the tourists, in the worst sense of the term.

HogansHero said: "In my experience, folks in this business refer to tourists as a subset of visitors to New York, and yes that subset has a pejorative connotation. But at the same time, it is a subset without which Broadway would not be what it is. You can look at the stats of what shows tourists buy tickets for and you should quickly understand the conflicted relationship. But no one labors under the impression that everyone visiting New York is some kind of bumpkin. When Robert Falls comes to town, no one thinks he is a tourist, and the same goes for the many out-of-towners on this board who come looking for challenging theatre. But the fact is, all of those good people are eclipsed by the people needed to keep Phantom et al afloat. You could say the same thing about all of the other attractions in New York. Tourists are lining up at Olive Garden and Red Lobster even though they could easily have some great food they won't find back home without walking very far. Out of Towners are in abundance at Le Bernardin, but no one calls it a tourist restaurant. The point is, the critical mass depends on the return of the tourists, in the worst sense of the term."

https://therealdeal.com/2020/11/17/new-yorks-tourism-industry-faces-long-recovery/

New York’s tourism industry faces long recovery

Forecast from city’s tourism agency predicts recovery by 2025

A new forecast projects New York’s tourism industry might not recover from its pandemic-related woes for at least four more years, dampening hope that the hospitality sector will stage a rapid recovery when a coronavirus vaccine arrives.