"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
If it's at the Hudson, it will probably be similar pricing to Merrily (with Daniel Radcliffe)? Or do you think it might even be more given the possible demand.
Wick3 said: "If it's at the Hudson, it will probably be similar pricing to Merrily (with Daniel Radcliffe)? Or do you think it might even be more given the possible demand."
I think one hand Rpmeo and Juliet is a limited run, which Merrily is going to run for a full year if I'm not mistaken or around that time, especially if we add the Off Broadway engagement. Radcliffe has a huge popularity of different generations, plus he has Groff, Sonheim and the critics helping him to sell tix. On the other hand, Holland is a hotter star, maybe the most popular young actor now with Timothee Chalamet and a couple more, but his limited engagement will sell well I'd say. It depends on how limited it will be I guess?
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
I would expect ticket prices to be wild - it was one of the most difficult tickets to get the demand was wild. This is a major a-list celebrity and 'heartthrob' personality in one of the most iconic plays, playing Romeo. A very, very rare Broadway event. Daniel Radcliffe is incredible but even if he is not quite the same celebrity as this.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
I suspect a large portion of the audience that the casting choice is aiming to attract might be in the rude awakening that this is a Shakespear play that requires a proper understanding of the English language rather than West Side Story where the bar is much, much lower.
You would need to sell a kidney to have the money for a ticket! That said, given that this is a Jamie Lloyd production, I would expect there to be a certain amount of "Under 30" tickets for cheap prices. I was able to get one when I saw The Effect a couple of weeks ago. Jamie Lloyd wants to continue his vision of making theatre accessible to younger audiencegoers.
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
Dancingthrulife2 said: "I suspect a large portion of the audience that the casting choice is aiming to attract might be in the rude awakening that this is a Shakespear play that requires a proper understanding of the English language rather than West Side Story where the bar is much, much lower."
There is almost nowhere in this country you can go to school where you don't have to study at least one Shakespeare play before you leave the public school system so this attempt at condescending is a snooze. Maybe if we were talking Chekov or Ibsen.
I agree. I went to a public high school here in the USA and the one Shakespeare play every student had to read was Romeo&Juliet. The advanced English classes would read other Shakespeare plays like Macbeth, Hamlet, etc.
I still remember my English teacher telling us that plays are meant to be seen, not read, and encouraged us to watch a Shakespeare play in person someday.
If this play goes on Broadway, I can see school groups watching it during matinee or school trip (if they can get tickets!)