Bummer: No More AMTSJ
Dec. 2nd, 2008 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Me and the south bay peeps have season tickets. I'm sure we've got a snowball's chance in hell of getting any sort of refund. And I'll miss going to these shows. There's the Best of Broadway series in SF, of course, but that's way too expensive and too far and too late to do on a weeknight (except very once in a while). :-(
Me and the south bay peeps have season tickets. I'm sure we've got a snowball's chance in hell of getting any sort of refund. And I'll miss going to these shows. There's the Best of Broadway series in SF, of course, but that's way too expensive and too far and too late to do on a weeknight (except very once in a while). :-(
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Date: 2008-12-02 09:12 pm (UTC)What can we do for the bankers and the automobile executives?
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Date: 2008-12-02 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-02 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-02 10:00 pm (UTC)and reduce their income to $1.
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Date: 2008-12-02 09:22 pm (UTC)There is still lots of community theater in the area, and some of it's quite good, but it's not the same as seeing a professional production.
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Date: 2008-12-02 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-02 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-02 10:48 pm (UTC)Oooh! I just checked and they have a real web page now! (Yes, the real reason we haven't gone comes out - I hate making phone calls and their old webpage was teh poop.)
http://www.broadwaywest.org/
Wanna go?
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Date: 2008-12-02 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-12-02 11:34 pm (UTC)It is much worse than that. The AD is right: this will make being a working actor in the Bay Area much much harder. You can bring in touring shows--that's easy. CPA will just increase the number of touring shows that come to town, sell season tickets at slightly better than Best of Broadway prices, competition will ensue, and all will be good. Hell, Iknow for a fact they get regular national tours to Tahlequah OK for cryin out loud. But AMT was a producing Equity house, and those are gold, especially if they are producing equity houses that do Musical Theatre.
Honestly, I don't care about the audience (aside from the sucky fact that you will likely lose your season tickets money). There will be plenty for them to see. That will work itself out. But I worry about the actors in the Bay Area who have lost an employer. Ok, I know that, like most musical producers, they cast mostly out of New York and LA, but still it will make life even harder for working actors to survive in the Bay Area. And that is a disaster.
(Hopefully they will still bring Chicago to town with Tom Wopat and will honor your tickets. I saw him in Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway a few years back with Bernadette Peters, and he was fantastic. He must make a great Billy Flynn).
As an alternative you can always come visit us here in the Big Apple and see some Broadway Musicals while they are still on Broadway. ;-)