-The most expensive show ever to hit Broadway, $63 million, is premiering at 6:30pm this Sunday. Just about 1900 theatergoers have already purchased their tickets, expecting a fantastic show. This group of performers and technicians have yet to get through the show from start to finish once; constantly running into technical difficulties and lengthy scenery changes. At one point Spider-Man actually hovers over the crowd, adding an extra $4 million to the total cost because of the ceiling extensions needed in the theatre.-Why go through such great lengths to make a show that looks like it will make no profit?
Why not make the show simpler in order to conserve money and minimize error?
-Actors and producers may feel inclined to give up before they get to deep into the process. Because of the high cost and high risk it is not worth it to stick with the show. http://www.nytix.com/Blog/broadwayblog/index.html
What Broadway show held the record for most expensive before this? It is weird to think that such an expensive show won't make a profit. I think that it will make a decent profit because people will want to see such an "expensive" show
ReplyDeleteI would seriously doubt that anything good comes of this. There seems to be a lot of poor planning that went into this, like the 4 million that was spent just to make Spiderman hover over the crowd. Seems like that could have been cut out and expenses could have been cut easily.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't make sense that someone would spend so much money on one show because if it doesn't make the expected amount of profit, which must be a lot it will not make any money.
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