| Not many shows last 8 years on broadway | |
| Last Edit: dramedy 03:35 pm EDT 07/09/24 | |
| Posted by: dramedy 03:29 pm EDT 07/09/24 | |
| In reply to: Has any show been hurt more in history by the film than DEH? - broadwaybacker 02:50 pm EDT 07/09/24 | |
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| So I doubt it would still be playing now with or without the movie or Covid. The grosses were solid before Covid and the show started in December with good numbers and slipped. However, come from away also the same season as DEH had pretty much the same trajectory. It was one of the first shows to start up again in September so had less competition. But slipped down by January and that didn’t have a movie version. (Only the taped stage version on apple+). I think both shows just ran their course. Covid definitely disrupted the momentum but with new shows opening, older shows lose audiences. Most revivals don’t happen for at least 10 years. I do feel DEH was timely with social media really peaking in the teens. So the impact to posts going viral was something kind of newish 8 years ago. Now it isn’t because we just know how fake news spreads as real news now. AI just complicates things even more. DEH will look quaint in decades to come. I think the staging is what really was lost in the movie. We saw the streaming screens while audience took their seats. It was prominent during the show. For me that was the impact of the amount posts and reposts and info overload teenagers are facing. That was all because of the staging which was lost in the movie. Comet 1812 won for set design that year and DEH wasn’t even nominated (groundhog, war paint and hello dolly were the nominees). It’s a shame because I think that DEH was the best set for that show. |
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