| re: Nobody Knows How to Succeed on Broadway Anymore | |
| Posted by: ryhog 06:39 pm EDT 05/19/24 | |
| In reply to: Nobody Knows How to Succeed on Broadway Anymore - Mmac72 05:18 pm EDT 05/19/24 | |
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| Boris is a nice man. He also knows "not that much" about Broadway in general, and knows next to nothing about the business side of Broadway. While most, including him and assumedly you (and for the most part me) can agree that too many shows opened, with budgets that were too high, and with no reasonable expectation that an audience existed for what they were hoping to sell. It's logical, then, to ask why this happened. Surely, at least some of them had (and have) budgets that are out of control. That's the low hanging fruit, but far from being a "deep dive," he failed to ask the fundamental and essential question: who are these idiots who did these stupid things? Now let's be clear. Boris cherry-picked the shows he talked about. I see two reasons he might have done something like that. One is that he needed facts that would populate his narrative ("Broadway is on its deathbed" - oft-said, but never correct). The other is that he didn't know anything and his "research" consisted of reading Boroff's knowledgeable journalism and talking to a few people who would return his calls. He was limited to what he could cull from that. So he needed someone to blame and again he went for the low hanging fruit - the costs are too damn high. Pronouncing that (hard to disagree with in the abstract) theory, he failed to do what any knowledgeable (in this subject) journalist would do: ask why? And if he knew more than he did, the answer was staring him right in the face. If you look at who decided to budget those costs in his cherry pickings, you'll discover something pretty amazing: between them (with maybe 1 exception, sorta), they had virtually no experience making these multi-million dollar decisions. It would not take a first year management student very long to write up the case studies on these. The budgets for these shows were not realistic and that's why none of them made sense. And if you look, a lot of the "smart" producers pretty much sat out this season, or they at least escaped Mr. Kachka's cherry grove. Oh and they produced a few real gems I will long remember. |
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