The Palace Is Under Attack

The Palace Theatre has been given a $200,000 renovation for Holler If Ya Hear Me, the new Broadway musical inspired by the lyrics of Tupac Shakur that will begin performances May 29 towards a June 19 opening.

According to the Wall Street Journal, scenic designer Edward Pierce and the creatives of Holler have repositioned the ground-level orchestra seats into a stadium-seating configuration to "deepen the sense of intimacy" at the Palace.

"Everybody in those first few rows can basically high-five the actors," Pierce told the Wall Street Journal. "They're that close."

Rows A-J rise in a direct line from the edge of the stage up to the front mezzanine — to focus the performers' delivery upward — and rows K-Z of the orchestra will be unused, decreasing the house capacity to 1,120 seats (compared to the previous 1,740 seats). Holler is also responsible for returning the theatre's seating to its original state following its run (which currently remains open-ended).

Good to see that their capacity % won't seem as low after reducing their potential 35%.

following its run (which currently remains open-ended)

I can see this running for weeks, maybe even a couple months.

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"Under attack"? A tad dramatic, don't you think?

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so instead of spending all this money why didnt they wait for one of the half dozen theaters that will surely be opening up shortly.....

"Where is the attack?"

It's somewhere in the 12th line in Phantom of London's signature, which, sadly, actually exists.

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The real question is "does anyone know if they need any steel". (There - I can now say my message board usage is work related).

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Under attack by negroes!

Updated On: 4/22/14 at 01:46 PM

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Updated On: 4/22/14 at 02:00 PM

Maybe more of the theaters in the Phantom of London's jurisdiction should also be spending money on renovations...

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"Maybe more of the theaters in the Phantom of London's jurisdiction should also be spending money on renovations..."

We don't need no weird seating configurations thank-you-very-much

^ You laugh now, but 4 months from now when you are working on a time sensitive project and desperately need to get a question answered from someone who saw the Fiddler on the Roof run at the Orchard Theater in Dartford, well then, you'll be whistling a different tune.

Was the title 'Other Desert Cities', did that have bearing on the play? Just a bit of fun, calm down dear.

Anyway I always assumed that a Broadway house, could literally have its pick of shows, so on rent on the Palaces normal size, which is 6/7% of box office gross, so the Palace would rake in anything north of $70k a week, when a show has a capacity of 1800 with a drop of seating by 35% this would diminish there rent capability by $24.5k a week, so would allow the Nederlanders to collect roughly $45k a week in rent, I am basing this on a show that gross $1m a week.

Why did this go into Broadways biggest house, only to then reduce capacity.

I am surprised that the Nederlanders have dropped the ball here.