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How Hollywood Glamour Is Reviving the Endangered Broadway Play George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Denzel Washington and Mia Farrow are coming to Broadway, where some producers see plays with stars as safer bets than musicals. The pay on Broadway is not Hollywood-high, but it’s not bad — in commercial productions, stars are often given a negotiated base salary plus a percentage either of the box office or of any profit. As with everything on Broadway, finances play a role. The money risked by investors on plays is much lower than on musicals, which tend to have bigger casts, more elaborate sets, and, of course, musicians, and which have become increasingly expensive to produce. A new musical these days often costs more than $20 million to bring to Broadway — “Boop!” a new musical based on Betty Boop that is opening next spring, is being capitalized for up to $26 million. Plays generally cost less than half as much — the “Romeo and Juliet” revival is being capitalized for up to $7 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Of course, the potential upside is also lower. A successful play might return 30 percent to investors; the musical juggernauts (which are few and far between) can return many times that by sustaining long runs in large theaters and spinning off tours. (Of the 24 new Broadway musicals that opened over the last two seasons, only one, “& Juliet,” has become profitable thus far. Two others, “Hell’s Kitchen” and “The Outsiders,” have plausible paths to profitability, but it is too soon to know for sure.) Broadway had been on a remarkable upward trajectory in the years preceding the pandemic, but then tumbled; during the 2023-24 season, total attendance was still 17 percent lower than it had been the last full season before the pandemic.
How Hollywood Glamour Is Reviving the Endangered Broadway Play
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Remember MoviePass? The program that allowed you to see UNLIMITED movies in theaters for free, all for a low monthly fee. In NYC back then, you could see any movie any time for as many times as you wanted . . . for only $35/month. Naturally, I couldn't help but wonder how we could implement this for Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theatre, etc. And I actually introduced The AltarCard on my Off Broadway show #AltarBoyz which allowed super fans to see the show as many times as they wanted in on month for $199. It was like the Unlimited MetroCard for the show! 🙂 To be honest, like MoviePass . . . it was the biggest marketing success - but for a few of our diehards, it was exactly what they wanted. And hey - we tried it. Because when it comes to marketing (and anything), I often ask myself . . . What's the worst that could happen? And then ask yourself: what's the BEST thing that could happen? And if the BEST outweights the worst (which it usually does), you GO FOR IT. Which show would you see over and over again if Broadway had a BroadwayPass? (Like these marketing posts? Look for one every other Monday. #MarketingMonday) https://lnkd.in/euUSZWsK
Altar Boyz to Offer Unlimited Tickets Pass for May
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This is a massive win for Broadway. This is the first new musical to recoup since the pandemic that wasn't around before the pandemic . . . which means I don't think it got "save our stages" $ to restart. So, how did & Juliet do it? From the outside, I see three reasons. 1) It's not just a great show, it's a great FUN show, which is what audiences want to see. 2) They get a family audience, so the average order is probably closer to 3 than 2. Sure, fun date night, but the teens love it, too. 3) The music. Duh. OH and a bonus . . . which may be the most important. 4) It had a $17mm capitalization. In the sea of capitalizations over $20mm, they kept theirs down. The degree of difficulty for recouping a Broadway show is higher than ever. Super props to the great producing by #MaxMartin, #TimHeadington, #TheresaSteelePage, #JennyPetersson, Martin Dodd, and Eva Price. Let's hope this starts a trend! https://lnkd.in/eSXvfd-2
‘& Juliet’ recoups on Broadway
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The 2023-2024 Broadway season has officially come to an end and the Broadway League has released the stats. The season grossed $1.54 billion, slightly down 2.4% from the previous season, with 12.29 million admissions, almost unchanged from last year. Despite these positive figures, they have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels from the 2018-2019 season, which saw $1.83 billion in gross and 14.77 million attendees. However, theater capacity was high at 89.63%, close to 2018-2019's 89.75% and higher than last season's 88.35%. There were 1,471 playing weeks, slightly fewer than the previous season, but attendance per playing week increased to 8,353 from 8,333. The season saw 39 new productions, including 21 musicals, 16 plays, and 2 specials. #theater #broadway #onstage #boxoffice #tickets https://lnkd.in/ed_i2PKY
2023-2024 Broadway season ends with strong capacity and 12.3 million admissions to the theater, on par with last year
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The new issue of my newsletter about international theater, Jaques, just dropped and it's all about the booming musical market in South Korea—and why it feels like it's only a matter of time before we see a Korean-born musical on Broadway. Plus: What are the top-selling Korean musical productions of 2023? Who is Seoul's biggest musical star? What's the most desirable theater in town? Find out here!
K-MUSICALS ARE COMING FOR BROADWAY
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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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Just posted on DCTA, my Broadway review of the hilarious GUTENBERG!:
Non-stop laughs in the play-within-a-play parody ‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre
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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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Springtime on #Broadway. Over the next month 15….count ‘em 15 more shows will open by April 25th in time for the #TonyAwards eligibility deadline. The overwhelming majority of them are musicals. Last year there was a similar rush to open. Overloaded awards nominators hussled from show to show, publicists pulled out the stops to get as much attention as possible for artists and shows in a suddenly crowded field. In a competitive landscape where audiences have not returned to pre-pandemic levels it seems like maybe this many shows…shouldn’t go on. There are many factors in when a play or musical opens on Broadway: show financing; which theatres are open; star availability and others. But this many productions obviously timed to awards eligibility only makes it more difficult for all of them to get a solid footing. It’s difficult enough for a show to survive on Broadway even with known material…here I am just a few months ago reporting from the #MarquisTheatre on “Once Upon A One More Time,” a musical comedy built around the songs of #BritneySpears. It cost millions to mount the show which closed after only 123 performances when it could not find a large enough audience. A tremendous amount of talent, hard work, and money has gone into each of the shows opening these next few weeks. No question, it is exciting to see this explosion of creativity and life on Broadway and I wish all of the shows success. But I also wish for their sakes that they were not all opening at once. #theatre #musicaltheatre #entertainmentreporter #artsjournalist #opentowork
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In the new issue of JAQUES: I talk with all three newly anointed leaders of Disney Theatrical Group about how three shows across two continents are evolving the production pipeline of the world's biggest, busiest international producer of musicals—and what it might mean for the industry as a whole. https://lnkd.in/d5FRJgzU
DISNEY FLIPS THE SCRIPT
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