Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
BroadwayBen
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
#1Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:31pm
It's on TDF all the time. I'm surprised. Great reviews, Oscar winning star....Why isn't it doing better?
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#3Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:34pm
I think it might be related to the subject matter. We aren't exactly living in a climate or time when seeing a harshly real and brutal straight play is the first thing on peoples' agenda.
I would also add the frank belief that many Broadway audience members probably aren't interested in such a play that specifically takes place in a foreign nation, too.
pupscotch
Broadway Star Joined: 1/24/16
#4Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:37pm
It's a straight play, which sadly never helps ticket sales, and it's a hard sell (because it's depressing).
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#5Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:39pm
Lupita isn't the draw they thought she'd be. End of story.
#6Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:41pm
It's tough material and the word of mouth is probably mixed. I didn't see it on Broadway but know in previous productions the difficulty in understanding the dialects was an issue for some audience members.
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
10086sunset
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#7Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:43pm
neonlightsxo said: "Lupita isn't the draw they thought she'd be. End of story.
"
Agreed.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#8Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:45pm
The unmet expectations of Lupita, as neon mentioned, is also a big component. I have to think about The Elephant Man, which was by all accounts also a "depressing straight play"—but Bradley Cooper sold the hell out of the Booth day in and out. Lupita, while big, just apparently isn't a colossal draw.
TerrenceIsTheMann
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/15
#9Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:48pm
Why would she be though? Sure, Oscar winner, great. But that was a pretty small role. Only other thing I've seen her in is Star Wars and that was motion capture. It's totally obvious to see why she can't fill houses- yet. Give her 5-10 years and then she will.
#10Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:50pm
Couldn't understand half of what was being said, with headphones on.
Margo319
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/15
#11Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:53pm
A small part? In 12 Years a Slave? That wasn't a small part in any capacity. She was great in it but it was her first role. She was unknown before that and has done very little work afterwards. I saw the play and it was good, but it wasn't an enjoyable night at the theater.
Lunch_Lady
Swing Joined: 3/3/16
#12Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:00pm
It had a sold out run at The Public so the box office comment is bs. The play is very depressing and people want to see happiness in the springtime. Great play though.
TerrenceIsTheMann
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/15
#13Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:01pm
She had 18 mins of screentime Margo. A powerful role, for sure, but it's still 18 minutes. This show has a very small market.
TerrenceIsTheMann
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/15
#14Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:02pm
Selling out at the Public and selling out a broadway theater are too very different things.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#15Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:13pm
And while 12 Years a Slave received great accolades and attention, it should also be noted it wasn't a huge grosser either at the box office, and that was also depressing.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#16Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:24pm
Lunch_Lady said: "It had a sold out run at The Public so the box office comment is bs. The play is very depressing and people want to see happiness in the springtime. Great play though."
Have you ever seen the size of LuEsther Hall at the Public? It has a 160 seat capacity.
The fact that you don't understand the difference is "bs."
Lunch_Lady
Swing Joined: 3/3/16
#17Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:27pm
neonlightsxo said: "Lunch_Lady said: "It had a sold out run at The Public so the box office comment is bs. The play is very depressing and people want to see happiness in the springtime. Great play though."
Have you ever seen the size of LuEsther Hall at the Public? It has a 160 seat capacity.
The fact that you don't understand the difference is "bs."
"
The point that I was trying to make, is that the play can sell tickets regardless. Seems like you have a problem with Lupita anyway. Shut it.
#18Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:28pm
TerrenceIsTheMann said: "She had 18 mins of screentime Margo. A powerful role, for sure, but it's still 18 minutes."
Anne Hathaway only had 15 minutes of screen time in Les Miserables, and she still won the Oscar too. It just goes to show that it doesn't matter about how much time you have, it's mainly about what you do with your time.
BroadwayBen
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
#19Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:32pm
FUN HOME sold out at The Public and was a hit uptown too.
#20Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:38pm
BroadwayBen said: "FUN HOME sold out at The Public and was a hit uptown too.
"
Yeah, after it won 5 Tonys, including Best Musical.
"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
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#21Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:39pm
"The point that I was trying to make, is that the play can sell tickets regardless. Seems like you have a problem with Lupita anyway. Shut it."
Don't tell me to shut it. 160 seats is a LOT different than 804. I don't know what YOU don't understand.
I am a huge fan of Lupita, but I'm also a huge fan of reality.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#22Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:41pm
AC126748 said: "Yeah, after it won 5 Tonys, including Best Musical. "
Fun Home sold pretty successfully on Broadway in the two months between opening in April and the 2015 Tonys.
#23Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:52pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "AC126748 said: "Yeah, after it won 5 Tonys, including Best Musical. "
Fun Home sold pretty successfully on Broadway in the two months between opening in April and the 2015 Tonys.
"
It sold well but it certainly wasn't an impossible, standing room every night ticket until after the Tonys. And it's gone back to being a fairly easy ticket to get in the last few months. Circle in the Square is also one of the smallest theaters on Broadway.
"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
Updated On: 3/31/16 at 02:52 PM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#24Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:55pm
You have an entirely different audience downtown than uptown. (and, of course size of the house)
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Margo319
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/15
#25Why isn't ECLIPSED selling better?
Posted: 3/31/16 at 3:31pm
"Anne Hathaway only had 15 minutes of screen time in Les Miserables, and she still won the Oscar too. It just goes to show that it doesn't matter about how much time you have, it's mainly about what you do with your time."
EXACTLY
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