Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/14/24 - HELL'S KITCHEN, CABARET & More Top the List https://lnkd.in/eq8i68hB
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I love how this article explores what makes this production of Cabaret unique and why we have been so grateful to be a part of it since London. (Warning: some spoilers about how they portray the ending.) #broadway #producing #immersiveexperience #impactinvesting
Life Is a Cabaret! The Shimmering Kander and Ebb Classic Heads Back to Broadway Starring Eddie Redmayne
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We’ve Hit Peak Theater Nobody knows how to succeed on Broadway anymore. The resulting drop in demand has already lasted longer than the dips Broadway saw after 9/11 and the Great Recession. Audiences are down 17 percent since the boom season of 2018–19 with older suburbanites accounting for most of the falloff. “The drop was at 50-plus,” Producing on Broadway, where roughly 80 percent of shows fail to recoup, has always been a leap of faith. Yet Tonys no longer guarantee solvency. It used to be that if a show won Best Musical, it would earn its money back. Moulin Rouge! The Musical, the last winner to open before the pandemic, ultimately reopened and recouped. The next two winners, A Strange Loop and Kimberly Akimbo, failed to break even before closing. That hadn’t happened since 2002. The capitalization of Broadway shows this season adds up to $410 million, compared with $290 million last year, according to Broadway Journal columnist Philip Boroff. Before 2023, only a handful of shows were ever made for more than $20 million. This season, there are at least five, topped by Cabaret, which at $26 million is the most expensive Broadway revival in history. This can’t be pegged purely to inflation. Titanic would have cost $19 million in today’s money In November, Boroff reported that Water for Elephants has weekly operating costs of $960,000; Back to the Future costs $980,000 to run, and Cabaret needs $1.16 million to break even. Before the pandemic, $700,000 was considered to be very high. According to a 2023 Broadway League report, the average age of a theatergoer is now 40.4, the youngest in at least 20 years. https://lnkd.in/ds6a-aeF
We’ve Hit Peak Theater
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Are Broadway shows moving to earlier evening start times? That seems to be a trend as some shows address the post-pandemic decline in audiences, especially from suburban areas. Historically, evening performances started at 8:30 p.m., but have since shifted to 8:00 p.m. More recently, shows have been moving start times to 7:00 or 7:30 p.m. and adding more matinees, catering to families, tourists, and older audiences who prefer earlier shows. Matinees, particularly on Thursday afternoons, have become more popular than Saturday nights. Shows like Disney’s “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” now feature 6:30 p.m. performances on Sundays. Some productions, like “Oh, Mary!,” are opting for two evening performances instead of a matinee. The ongoing adjustments aim to get theaters back to capacity. #theater #broadway #onstage #tickets #boxoffice https://lnkd.in/e3z7Pgyd
Broadway performance times keep getting earlier
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The awards season for New York theatre broke into full swing this morning with the Drama League nominations. More will soon follow including the #TonyAward nominations, which is theatre's highest honor. And each year this time I find myself perplexed, disgruntled, curious, annoyed, pleasantly surprised, delighted and any number of reactions to the plays, musicals and individual artists singled out by the industry for exceptional achievement. One area that is consistently inconsistent and persistently unfair it seems to me is in the revival categories. There are shows that were never before performed on Broadway ("Appropriate" for example) that have been deemed a revival by the Tony Awards. Ostensibly because that show was performed off-Broadway without sweeping changes to the play and so therefor revival status is justified. Do I have that right, Tony folks? So why then was a play like "Fat Ham" (nominated for five Tony Awards last year) which transferred from off-Broadway's The Public Theater to a Broadway house with little change and the same cast (I saw both productions) placed in the category of Best New Play? In all this is there jockeying for placement to up a production's chances of winning? Nah, that couldn't possibly happen in show business! But this does beg the question if it isn't time for more clarity, transparency and fairness in the categories in which shows and even certain performances (lead vs. featured) are determined. #Broadway #EntertainmentReporter #TheatreReporter #ArtsJournalist #OpenToWork #Writer #Producer #TVJournalist
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Just posted on DCTA, my review of the fabulous BROADWAY EN SPANGLISH by Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano at 54 Below (and here it is with the featured image):
Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano bring their rousing and authentic ‘Broadway en Spanglish’ to NYC’s 54 Below
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Final main article of my freshman year at The Review, and it's (you guessed it, maybe) a Broadway piece! This time, it's a recap of what shows stopped by in the 2023-24 season! Writing about Broadway is so much fun. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/epaXA56S (Also as a guessing game, which shows are in the visual done by Lillian Conlan?) it may or may not have stumped the A&C crew!
Broadway’s 2023-24 year in review
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Here’s my review of Broadway in Tucson’s “Hairspray.”
Broadway in Tucson Review: Hairspray'
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Street Shows vs Broadway Shows At Times Square , you have two types of shows 1) Street Shows 2) Broadway Shows They both have got amazing Talents They both are entertaining on nature Then why Broadway shows are more successful and more famous Reason is “ The Stage at which you Perform” Street Shows don’t have invest on the stage , the resources are almost free At the same time , they can’t charge tickets and 90% of their audience don’t pay On the other hand , Broadway shows invests in - Writers - Actors - production design - director - marketing and ads Then they are in the position to command respect and premium tickets Talent , Skill and potential is same in both shows but what makes you successful is the Stage at which you Perform So Ask yourself are you using your talent and potential at the right stage If not , either Find the Right Stage or Build Your Own Stage #coaching #edifylabs #livingtheunlived
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This is for all you Broadway Producers - I used to go to the theater for cheap. I had a ploy but when I say CHEAP I mean $25 bucks and I would go to the theater a lot. Then I got to know stage managers and went for free. That was back in the late 1990s. Today ticket prices are only for rich people but theater was designed primarily for the poor. I blame shows like HAMILTON and shows about creepy old singers no one really remembers except the boomers and when I say boomers I mean people in their 80s and 90s. Broadway and Off-Broadway is so expensive that the idea of paying over $200 bucks a person puts me off even looking at a play - musical or straight. Ticket prices for concerts are astronomical,too. Why? To see PINK perform "tickets Pink Tickets New York - Prices Start At $302". I like PINK but I don't like her that much. Taylor Swift tickets are this: "Aug 15, 2023 — The average resale ticket sold for the concert at the time of publications is $1,619, according to SeatGeek." At least she doesn't lip synch anything but the price for tickets are insane and I refuse to pay that for anyone. The producers ruining Broadway are the same people offering up shows about once famous musicians that the young people don't know nor do they care about them so they aren't going to the theater. This is me being very blunt. I'm not the only person saying this - a Broadway Producer who is now 88 years young is also disgusted with the price of tickets and this is what EMANUEL AZENBURG has to say about the entire thing: Broadway is broken and the only way to get it back is to lower tickets, stop with all these crazy stories about Manilow, King, Diamond - people today do not know these people and they aren't interested in going to see a show about them. Do something innovative like #primafacie and get an actor like #jodiecomer and you'll see the money flowing in like Niagra Falls. Keep putting up the same boring bullshit pieces no one gives a flying shit about - and you will be wasting your money on a flop. Just my 2 cents on the subject -and yeah, I'm disgusted. I'd rather do film & TV. THAT'S WHERE THE $ IS. https://lnkd.in/etDTmEYB
Broadway Producer Emanuel Azenberg: “We’ve chased away an audience.”
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