Monday, November 19, 2007
For Short-Run Plays, the Odds Grow Longer During Strike
washingtonpost.com: "As limited runs go, the Broadway engagement of 'August: Osage County' has gotten more limited by the day. The nine-day-old stagehands' strike that has shuttered 27 shows, from 'Rent' to 'Wicked' to 'Legally Blonde,' is a hardship for ticket holders and test of wills for union leaders and theater producers, whose negotiations for a new contract broke down Sunday night. But consider the special agonies it has posed for a risky Broadway venture like 'August,' a little-known play by a little-known Chicago playwright with only a small window of time to make it in New York."
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This is the first time that I have thought of the strike in this perspective. As the mega-musicals have the money to put out in hopes of regaining gross after the strike is ended, it is not as much of an issue that Wicked is going to close. However, the genre of new Broadway plays, which are far less wealthy, may never come close to gross’ing anything, as new works are based on word of mouth, and with a limited engagement, the word of mouth just won’t spread.
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