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Posted: 8/24/18 at 4:22pm
I think this could do really well, especially in what's so far looking like the weakest season this decade. I can't recall a well-liked & positively reviewed original music with a pop/rock score that hasn't done well in recent memory. I could see this being a strong Tony contender!
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Posted: 8/24/18 at 7:05pm
Teens like pretty people. If a cast is full of pretty people, no matter how bad the show is, teens will flock to it.
Posted: 8/24/18 at 9:42pm
BroadwayRox3588 said: "Teens like pretty people. If a cast is full of pretty people, no matter how bad the show is, teens will flock to it."
I second this, there are so many teens I know (personally and online) who flocked to this show because they thought the Will's or George were attractive. I don't see it really, and George could be some of their fathers, but to each is own...
As to those saying it is dying out, that is because of fans from last year (Early Hansen era to late Hamilton era) leaving since other fans (Post Tonys 2017 is the usual marker) have truly done stuff to tamper with and/or ruin the show for them. That's the other downside to fan powered shows: When a show is overpowered so it drives away the power it would have gotten. I'm still holding on to it going to New World Stages or a very limited run in a small theatre (Like Lyceum or Booth)
Posted: 8/24/18 at 9:51pm
The pretty thing also applies to all the Mean Girls love. That cast is FULL of eye candy for teens, so they're gonna flock to it. They damn sure don't love it for the message, because they prove time and time again that the message of the show/movie goes in one ear, and out the other.
Posted: 8/24/18 at 11:18pm
I think except for Jason Tam, The BE MORE CHILL Actors were not cast for their looks.
Posted: 8/24/18 at 11:46pm
CurtainPullDowner said: "I think except for Jason Tam, The BE MORE CHILL Actors were not cast for their looks."
Agreed. As a teen personally I don’t really find any of them attractive they all look like they’re their age which is fine but people but people my age tend to be attracted to early twenties looking people.
Also I truly don’t think it’s about looks. If you go on tumblr you don’t see people saying stuff like “omg will is so hot!” It’s more like “I relate to this show in my teenage angst and I ship any two male characters together”. A lot of the reason this show got popular is because people ship Michael & Jeremey.
A more accurate statement would be teen flock to fandoms where they can write fan fiction and draw art for a couple, usually a gay one. (Evan Hansen, BMC, Hamilton) whereas other good musicals that don’t have romance or “shippable” characters/actors don’t have much teen following. Or to a show where they can relate to the teenage angst (Mean Girls, Heathers, Evan Hansen).
Posted: 8/24/18 at 11:49pm
Very rarely, do people admit to being into something/someone for their looks anymore. I'm not even saying it's a bad thing. I was a teenager once too, I get it. I'm just saying it's a thing.
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Posted: 8/25/18 at 3:54am
I wonder if "Smokey Joe's" is doing well or if Be More Chill could go into that off-Broadway theater in the winter?
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Posted: 8/25/18 at 2:39pm
Brace ourselves for what? They found out about a RUMOR. Do you think they hadn't hoped or thought of the possibility before someone put in print?
Posted: 8/25/18 at 3:38pm
Oooohhh! Teenagers spreading rumors! There's something you don't hear every day!
Please tell school starts soon...
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Posted: 8/27/18 at 9:49pm
While I didn't love the show and cant really see it on Broadway...why are people so set that it will not transfer and if it did it would do horribly. There has been some shows in recent years that didn't have anything close to a stable fan base and still ended up doing well. This show has a stable fan base and although they may not be the ideal theatre goers, why is it so bad or unbelievable to have a show that has the potential to do well come to Broadway?
Posted: 8/27/18 at 10:02pm
Because most don't think it WILL do well. It's one thing to sell out an off b'way, 200 seat theater in a limited run, but can it even come close in a 1,000 seat house with a ticket costing 2x as much to?
Might it move? Sure. MIght is succeed? Sure. Few thought Rock of Ages would succeed or Next to Normal. But truth be told few do, like Title of Show, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, And things with a big following that never even made the jump: Bare springs to mind.
And as Kad said, it's not being taken seriously by the biz. It's audience is far too narrow.
Posted: 8/27/18 at 10:20pm
The audience is pretty narrow, but I honestly do believe that this show has the potential. There's already plenty of buzz around the name, and more will surely be generated if it does make the transfer. And the ticket prices the theater set are comparable, if not more expensive than Broadway prices currently. TPTGW starts at $30 for the balcony seats, which I think is something that should be feasible for BMC to pull off since now they have like 4 times the seats to bring in revenue from.
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