What's currently playing on Broadway? 27 shows plus 14 empty theaters. Right off the bat, it seems like they have have over-extended. I don't know. Maybe 14 empty theaters is fiscally sound?
Let's look at random ones that opened after 2015, because they're still doing Book Of Mormon, Chicago, Lion King, Moulin Rouge!, etc.
& Juliet: Broadway's anachronistic jukebox musical that explores what would have happened if Shakespeare's Juliet had decided to live her life after Romeo dies
"We have Wicked at home"
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Unwanted stage spinoff.
Hell's Kitchen: An Alicia keys bio where they can use an existing soundtrack.
MJ: A Michael Jackson bio where they can use an existing soundtrack.
Oh, Mary!: What if Mary Todd Lincoln "madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic." Charming...
Six: "pop-concert-meets-history-lesson celebration of Henry VIII's ill-fated wives" Temu girl-power Hamilton. And Hamilton sucks.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow: If Harry Potter can do it, so can we!
I'm actually pleasantly surprised. It's less subversion than I expected. It's more uncreative attempts to ape existing properties/discographies to attract existing fans. Seems like they're making the exact same mistakes that Hollywood did. Trying to follow The Formula or rid on the coattails of an existing "franchise" to attract a new audience that doesn't exist. You're not going to convert the people who watched Stranger Things into regular theatergoers. You're just going to chase your existing, dwindling, audience away even faster. And like has been said elsewhere in the thread, the same massive budget inflation. With smaller audiences and big budgets, I bet ticket prices haven't been going down either. Just a guess.
What's currently playing on Broadway? 27 shows plus 14 empty theaters. Right off the bat, it seems like they have have over-extended. I don't know. Maybe 14 empty theaters is fiscally sound?
Let's look at random ones that opened after 2015, because they're still doing Book Of Mormon, Chicago, Lion King, Moulin Rouge!, etc.
& Juliet: Broadway's anachronistic jukebox musical that explores what would have happened if Shakespeare's Juliet had decided to live her life after Romeo dies
"We have Wicked at home"
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Unwanted stage spinoff.
Hell's Kitchen: An Alicia keys bio where they can use an existing soundtrack.
MJ: A Michael Jackson bio where they can use an existing soundtrack.
Oh, Mary!: What if Mary Todd Lincoln "madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic." Charming...
Six: "pop-concert-meets-history-lesson celebration of Henry VIII's ill-fated wives" Temu girl-power Hamilton. And Hamilton sucks.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow: If Harry Potter can do it, so can we!
I'm actually pleasantly surprised. It's less subversion than I expected. It's more uncreative attempts to ape existing properties/discographies to attract existing fans. Seems like they're making the exact same mistakes that Hollywood did. Trying to follow The Formula or rid on the coattails of an existing "franchise" to attract a new audience that doesn't exist. You're not going to convert the people who watched Stranger Things into regular theatergoers. You're just going to chase your existing, dwindling, audience away even faster. And like has been said elsewhere in the thread, the same massive budget inflation. Assuming here, but with smaller audiences and big budgets, I bet ticket prices haven't been going down either. Just a guess.
What's currently playing on Broadway? 27 shows plus 14 empty theaters. Right off the bat, it seems like they have have over-extended. I don't know. Maybe 14 empty theaters is fiscally sound?
Let's look at random ones that opened after 2015, because they're still doing Book Of Mormon, Chicago, Lion King, Moulin Rouge!, etc.
& Juliet: Broadway's anachronistic jukebox musical that explores what would have happened if Shakespeare's Juliet had decided to live her life after Romeo dies
"We have Wicked at home"
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Unwanted stage spinoff.
Hell's Kitchen: An Alicia keys bio where they can use an existing soundtrack.
MJ: A Michael Jackson bio where they can use an existing soundtrack.
Oh, Mary!: What if Mary Todd Lincoln "madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic." Charming...
Six: "pop-concert-meets-history-lesson celebration of Henry VIII's ill-fated wives" Temu girl-power Hamilton. And Hamilton sucks.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow: If Harry Potter can do it, so can we!
I'm actually pleasantly surprised. It's less subversion than I expected. It's more uncreative attempts to ape existing properties/discographies to attract existing fans. Seems like they're making the exact same mistakes that Hollywood did. Trying to follow The Formula or rid on the coattails of an existing "franchise" to attract a new audience that doesn't exist. You're not going to convert the people who watched Stranger Things into regular theatergoers. You're just going to chase your existing, dwindling, audience away even faster.