Saturday, September 29, 2007
Big Easy does it Broadway-style
Variety.com: "There's Boston and San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle and Denver. Now New Orleans is aiming to make the list of potential tryout towns for Broadway shows."
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In south of the country, New Orleans is preparing Broadway shows. That the Broadway musicals can make money is assured. It may stimulate New Orleans’s economics and create jobs for the local residents. As to the cultural activities, New Orleans is well-known for jazz for long time, and I think the residents are all jazz fans. So I am not sure if the New Orleaners will be interested in Broadway musical besides jazz musical. However, the people in the neighborhood may appreciate it and go to watch shows. It will be good for New Orlean’s commercial activities.
It's great that they're starting to get New Orleans back into the swing of things. I think that it will take some adjustment before it catches down there to have the musicals but with any hope things will.
Hopefully this will bring great things to New Orleans. My only concern is that people will be weary to make the trip while the city is still in reconstruction mode. They really need to push it all the way and advertise it to the max. If its just a slow trickle, I think that it will be a lot longer before we start to see the market for it really pick up.
It is an interesting idea to try to attract theatrical shows to a specific area to increase tourism. There is a fundamental problem though. In a lot of cases the shows are not well recognized until they have been work-shopped and gone to Broadway. There is always the theatrical crowd that will go see new shows, but if you look at all of the shows in Vegas they were well established before they were opened in Vegas. I'm not sure New Orleans will end up coming out ahead in this deal, if the shows are just developed and then leave before they become big enough to draw a crowd and turn a profit.
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