| re: Dimming Marquee Lights Question | |
| Posted by: ryhog 07:20 pm EDT 10/07/24 | |
| In reply to: Dimming Marquee Lights Question - theatreguy40 02:04 pm EDT 10/07/24 | |
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| Your questions are not bad ones and certainly not worthy of attacks. They provide me an opportunity to say two things that I have said here many times. 1. Just as with most things in the theatre (not counting contracts obviously), there are no rules. In this case, I don't see how there ever could be. Do we have rules for which shows are going to be hits and which are going to flop? Do we have rules for what the critical reception of a show is going to be? No. We don't even have rules on who is and who is not a "star." (In fact, there are "stars" of Broadway who are unknown to well over 99% of the people who live in the city, and there are also huge stars in some shows that I had never heard of until they were announced as being in some show.) 2. As I say in another post on this page right now, the decision is not a community decision and never has been. It is a "gesture" by the owners of Broadway theatres (currently decided upon by an owners' committee within the structure of the League) based on what the three (I think) members of that committee feel like doing, based on their personal feelings about someone. That's it. And before the internet, almost no one knew it was happening (and almost certainly not in advance), and there really was no kvetching. Now everyone thinks they are entitled to have their voices heard. [Also, up until not that long ago, the gesture occurred AT showtime, not some minutes before, so anyone in the theatre district for a show would not witness it. Maybe it would be on the 11 o'clock news if it had been a slow news day. I have tried to think of another example of a private gesture that the public wants in on, and I can't. Someone dies and I decide to send flowers, or just a card, or nothing. Someone dies and Macy's decides to put together a window in their Herald Square store. Or they don't. These are all individual gestures, and there are no petitions. In my opinion (and it seems no one else agrees, but I am ok with that) a gesture becomes meaningless when it is made into an event or a spectacle. |
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