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#2

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

Annoying people like you!
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#7

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

Thanks bwaybabe2. I know...I've been around. He just accused me of always being negative in another thread and this was a classic pot calling kettle black example with him being the pot.
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#10

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

There is no ONE element. It's a combination of so many things. And sometimes it's just timing or luck.
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#15

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

Money?
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#16

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

Now, SpellingBee, "that" would be an audience reaction, so we won't count you >{
It's OK jordangirl, he appears to be off his meds a lot when posting here


Uh, excuse me? Who do you think you are? You haven't even been here a month and you're trying (and failing) to insult me. Yeah, I don't think so! Try again next year!

He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.

Updated On: 5/18/08 at 12:34 AM

#18

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

I'd have to agree that it is a combination of elements that makes any Broadway musical succeed. Combinations like Rodgers & Hammerstein, or Lerner & Loewe.

It takes a compelling story. Great musical score. Great songs. A tasteful directorial vision. And a great cast to present it all.

A good dramatic structure is very important. It is the backbone for everything else. It holds the music and songs together. Well written dialogue (a product of good dramatic structure) never hurt, either. There are exceptions, like the musical revue Jacques Brel is Alive and Well....

So I'd say a good compelling story idea coupled with a good dramatic structure, good music and good songs. You'd sorta have to define what makes each of those components "good" to get a full answer.
#19

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

SpellingBee, you like to give, but not take...? Well, if what you said about me is true, why am I already a stand-by? Certainly not 'cause of my pretty face re: What is the most important  element for a Bway show to succeed?
BTW, I was NOT insulting you, and I am very humble---it's like a Vaudeville here, if you open yourself, someone will take a shot, but mostly a funny outtake, nothing nasty...at least not from me.
I lol with most of the posts here--always can count on blaxx for that, thank God (I think :I).
miss pennywise, I know, but I just wanted to see what the "most" important, in poster's opinion, would come out to be. It should be enlightening. An element should be something that an entity cannot do without, and I am looking for that "backbone", so to speak. Granted, there might not be a specific answear to this one...
Succeed? Maybe maya5892 has defined it best, so far...as this would mean: Money, popularity and exposure.

Updated On: 5/18/08 at 01:44 AM

#21

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

"PR, PR, PR.

Whether or not it's a good show doesn't matter, you have to make people want to see it. PR!"


PR is needed to get the initial audiences in to see a show, but once the show is on critics start writing about it, people start talking about it and posting on message boards (like this one). PR alone cannot carry a show through a long run. Word of mouth and word of internet become more important than any production-sponsored PR. In other words, at some point it has to be a good show, one that people like. If people don't like it, no amount of PR will save it. (IMO)
#22

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

Enough spectacle to cover up how flawed the actual show is.
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#23

re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?

SpellingBee, you like to give, but not take...? Well, if what you said about me is true, why am I already a stand-by? Certainly not 'cause of my pretty face
BTW, I was NOT insulting you, and I am very humble---it's like a Vaudeville here, if you open yourself, someone will take a shot, but mostly a funny outtake, nothing nasty...at least not from me.
I lol with most of the posts here--always can count on blaxx for that, thank God (I think :I).
miss pennywise, I know, but I just wanted to see what the "most" important, in poster's opinion, would come out to be. It should be enlightening. An element should be something that an entity cannot do without, and I am looking for that "backbone", so to speak. Granted, there might not be a specific answear to this one...
Succeed? Maybe maya5892 has defined it best, so far...as this would mean: Money, popularity and exposure.



You're a standby because you post useless **** like this!

He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.

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