Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:51:22 -0500 (EST) From: robertrogers-AT-robertrogerspuppets.com To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: [Puptcrit] spider man Acording to the LA Times, Spiderman:Turn Off the Dark will have a budget of 52 million dollars. For a play? How high will ticket prices have to be to pay for such indulgence? Recently, a revival of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs closed on Broadway after only a week of performances. Apparently, the general public just did not want to see it. The production cost 3 milluion dollars. Now the producers are in a hole. Interestingly, the original production cost only $150,000.00 & earned 8 million. Ticket prices for Broadway shows are so outlandishly expensive that attending the theater (on Broadway anyway) has become a once in a blue moon experience, or something special for tourists to do while on vacation. So budgeting 52 million dollars for Spiderman will only make the situation worse. Robert Rogers _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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