Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!
'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.
You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.
My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.
So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck.
Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.
I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.
Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal.
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