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

And, I mean, ANYTHING! (not counting favorable audience reaction;we are looking for what would make "this" reaction happen...)

Updated On: 5/17/08 at 10:55 PM

And I'm negative? Wow.

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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

Updated On: 5/17/08 at 11:00 PM

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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wonderful, I might have to agree on that one. Word of mouth/marketing seems to be a very strong catalyst, as I have witnessed.

Define "succeed".

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Oh, then the most important element for a "Bway" show to succeed is to not be BKLYN: The Musical.

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Money?

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To have an audience that will keep coming back to buy tickets.

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.

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

"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)

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!

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I think story and characters are the strongest. A few shows can rise above--MAMMA MIA for example--but the greatest shows have great stories with characters you love.
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