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Originally Posted by AndrewG
.... and then you are talking about a show, at a fixed venue, in one city with 8 performances per week at at least £50 per ticket, 1000 seats to fill, having to run for around 18 months at least to gain some sort of profit. Hmmm. It may sound extremely negative but I feel I am being realistic. Sorry.
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I think this is the rub. In my view it would arguably have had its best chance in terms of paying its way in London, where it would be accessible to an audience of fans drawn from all over the UK and from Europe to get started. But even then any musical needs to have a very broad appeal to sustain it for that length of time. It's not simply about its worth in musical terms, it's about bottom line economics in a notoriously difficult industry, and filling those seats night after night for a long time.
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Perhaps if he teamed up with Andrew Lloyd Webber again and named it something like The Dark Peter Pan.
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Interesting thought .. particularly with ALW's current ploy of casting the lead through a TV "talent" show .. something which gives every new musical he stages now a huge boost in terms of publicity to get it started
(I think those who have referred to Meat have perhaps been thinking more about his drive and determination to bring any project to fruition rather than his name as a draw btw. It would certainly need a drive as weighty as Meat's to make it happen in my view, but whether he could commit to it as wholeheartedly now as he did getting BOOH out into the world is another matter. He still has music he wants to deliver, TV and film he wants to get into the world. He is a performer rather than a producer, and I can't help but feel were he to shift into producing or directing it would be film that called him. Just my thoughts.)
Caryl