#1
Posted: 11/1/10 at 6:40pm
I've noticed it with Elf and Merchant of Venice
Why are some shows only running 7 performances a week?
#2
Posted: 11/1/10 at 6:50pm
ELF - because it is in previews and lots of shows do that while in previews
MERCHANT - Al Pacino's schedule determined the performance schedule (and it is also currently still in previews)
MERCHANT - Al Pacino's schedule determined the performance schedule (and it is also currently still in previews)
#3
Posted: 11/1/10 at 10:35pm
ELF is opening cold on Broadway, so I'm sure they needed time to tinker around with things?
#4
Posted: 11/1/10 at 10:47pm
Merchant is the third highest grossing show this week with only 7 shows. Imagine if they played a full 8 shows. That's an amazing gross for a Shakespeare play.
#5
Posted: 11/1/10 at 10:50pm
Exactly. Merchant is grossing $1 million a week. If they can play 7 performances a week and turn a profit, why the heck not?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6
Posted: 11/2/10 at 10:58am
"Merchant is the third highest grossing show this week with only 7 shows. Imagine if they played a full 8 shows. That's an amazing gross for a Shakespeare play."
They'll be adding an 8th for certain weeks.
They'll be adding an 8th for certain weeks.
#7
Posted: 11/2/10 at 11:59am
We need to remember performances of any Shakespeare play is going to be 3 (that is THREE) hours. Consider the cast and crew. Two days a week are Mat and Eve perfs. As an actor, I've been there. 6 hours of curtain UP time is a drain.
#8
Posted: 11/2/10 at 2:48pm
Pacino didn't want to do 8 (originally he only wanted to do 6)
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