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What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#25re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
Posted: 5/18/08 at 2:15pmGood word of mouth and more often than not, the Tony for Best Musical.
i*heart*fame
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/04
#26re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
Posted: 5/18/08 at 3:13pmcompetent producers
#27re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
Posted: 5/18/08 at 3:27pm
Oh, oh! I know! We had this question in my Musical Theatre Styles Class!
Money.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#28re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
Posted: 5/18/08 at 3:30pm
The most important element in making a Broadway show successful is simply an audience. With no audience a show must close (yes, shows employ people and the audience's money pays those 'employees', etc.) -- no matter how many Tony Awards it wins or how stellar The New York Times and press reviews are. A good show doesn't merit it to be successful, as the quick closures of numerous gems can attest.
As most mentioned... fabulous word-of-mouth seems to be the key factor these days and what successful shows are successfully running on: MAMMA MIA! and WICKED come to mind as they were not well-received by the critics but are still bringing in audiences. 'Bad' shows don't close -- shows losing money do.
Gone are the days when people used to ask "oh, it closed because it was THAT bad?" Now they say "oh, its sad that show had to close because it wasn't making money".
Good PR and good marketing has turned-out to be a small margin to a show's success as huge expensive campaigns have failed to generate interest in shows audiences aren't talking about. People want to see shows others are gabbing about, not because of a nice logo on a bus or a really huge ad in The New York Times.
GREY GARDENS' tabloid inspired ads didn't help one bit. Only fans of the show 'got' them and the people who it was attempting to attract just didn't care to find out what the ads were about.
#29re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
Posted: 5/18/08 at 4:21pm
That's easy...
JEWS!
Excuse me?
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#30re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
Posted: 5/18/08 at 4:24pmYou're excused.
#31re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
Posted: 5/18/08 at 4:29pmMusicalmaster, have you seen Spamalot??
#32re: What is the most important element for a Bway show to succeed?
Posted: 5/18/08 at 4:30pmoh. I forgot. whoooo.
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