If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.
The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make.
We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.
It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.
I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.
I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
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