[NEohioPAL] From the New York Times; straight shows down, musical theatre up

[Nancy Brooks]

Actually, the Fine Arts Association's production of Noises Off was the one that overlapped with the CPH production's run, and then the Aurora production opened about a week or so after FAA's closed. So really, that makes for three local versions of that particular show within almost the exact same time frame (and fairly close mile radius). Not counting Youngstown Playhouse's production a couple of months prior to that.
 
Which brings to my mind a sort-of related question for those of you who deal with obtaining performance rights for your theatres. I know it sometimes seems like we're all doing the same 8-10 shows every season, but is it possible, in the current economic atmosphere, that the publishing houses (Samuel French in particular) have relaxed their restrictions on granting rights to theatres in the same region becaue they don't want to turn away income, which then forces the theatres to fight for audiences for the same show, as Lincoln mentioned in his post?
 
Nancy B
 
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:09:50 -0800> From: aeronauticsnut at yahoo.com> To: lking-cliby at lincoln.homeip.net; neohiopal at listserve.com> Subject: Re: [NEohioPAL] From the New York Times; straight shows down, musical theatre up> > --- On Thu, 12/18/08, Lincoln King-Cliby <lking-cliby at lincoln.homeip.net> wrote:> > > I know this sounds funny with the Nth National Tour of Rent> > on the horizon, but I also think some of the straight shows are being> > overperformed... In the greater Cleveland area, over the course of a few> > weeks not long past Noises Off was on two different stages> > simultaneously, and I would think that there was some impact to each> > show's audience size as a result. > > If you are referring to one of the Noises Off that was at Aurora Community Theatre; it wasn't impacted by the other run. In fact, that show had virtual sell-outs on most nights. One of the best selling shows Aurora has had as of late. If it's a great show, people will come see it. period.> > I agree it's difficult to fill the seats for a straight play as compared to putting on a musical. My 'home' theatre surveyed their audiences and they would rather see more musicals than straight plays. As mentioned before, musicals are in general, faster paced than straight shows. Look at the pace that we live in; it's no wonder people prefer the musicals.> > Theresa Benyo-Marzullo> > > > > _______________________________________> Connect with your colleagues! Join the Cleveland Theater Collective. Info here: http://www.clevelandtheater.com/> ______________________________________> NEohioPAL is SELF-SERVE. If you need to unsubscribe, change from digest to one-at-a-time delivery or vice-versa, go on hiatus while out of town, switch from mime to plain text or vice-versa, etc. check out the FAQS at http://www.fredsternfeld.com.> ______________________________________> please consider a voluntary contribution to support Neohiopal - http://www.fredsternfeld.com/faqs.htm#support> ______________________________________> Disclaimer: The facts and/or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the person in the 'from' or 'reply-to' header. The fact that this message is posted should in no way be taken as an endorsement by the administrator of this list. Subscribers should perform due diligence for all goods, services and activities promoted on NEohioPAL.> _____________________________________> NEohioPAL mailing list> http://mailman.listserve.com/listmanager/listinfo/neohiopal
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