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This all goes hand-in-hand with the whole “NO ONE CARES ABOUT BROADWAY ANYMORE~~~ /SADFACE” BS spewed by Broadway industry/NYC tourism board people.

Like, they’ve got this narrative in their head that people just suddenly lost all interest in theater one day and are trying to paint themselves as the victims of an uncaring public completely oblivious to the fact that attendance went down around the same time that ticket prices started inflating into the hundreds for seemingly no other reason than “they felt like it.”

Back in the ‘90s you could get orchestra seating tickets for a popular new Tony Award winning show for somewhere between $80-$100.

Now?  Theaters are charging the same amount for seats in the nosebleed section with an obstructed view.  It’s ridiculous.  Orchestra seat tickets these days are going for as high as $500.  That’s a 400% increase over the course of twenty fucking years.

Imagine spending ~$1000 on a night out with your partner and that doesn’t even cover the cost of dinner.

Outside of lotteries – which not every theater does, aren’t highly advertised, are not easily accessible to people who work/are visiting –  it’s literally impossible to buy a pair of tickets without ending up spending somewhere between $200-$400 unless you’re seeing a show that’s been running for over ten years.

People can’t afford to go to Broadway anymore.  

Or if they do, they have to save up or wait for a sudden influx of money and then choose one show that they really want to see that year and hope anything else will still be open by the time they get the money to see that.

You cannot continue to price more and more people out of Broadway theaters and then 1) complain that no one’s coming anymore so they must not care, and 2) complain that people are finding other ways to try to experience these unnecessarily exclusive shows.

People want to see the shows.

That’s why bootlegs exist!  Not because people are selfish, but because they can’t afford the only means of actually seeing them.

You really think that people who pay for bootlegs wouldn’t happily pay for a legitimate professional recording?

Why do you think Andrew Lloyd Webber is slowly working his way through his entire catalogue and putting out DVD’s?  Of even the FAILED projects!  And people are watching them!  They’re watching them so enthusiastically that he’s in the process of reviving at least one of those epic failures!

The fact that Phantom of the Opera with gerard butler earned back more than twice it’s budget despite heavy criticism. Hairspray from 2007 earned almost 3 times. Mama Mia earned back 12 times its budget. 

Because i can afford ten dollars to see a movie, i might even be inclined to see a movie twice or three times in theatres, and still buy it on DVD for 25$ when it comes out. which, all in all is less than 60$. 

Clearly the point ins’t that musicals aren’t popular, despite what pop culture would like to tell you about theatre kids.  Musicals are always popular, and movie musicals almost always do well financially, and id bet money its because it’s a lot easier to take a chance on seeing a new movie for less than the cost of a dinner than to see a broadway show for the cost of a mortgage payment.

If Broadway shows came out on DVD, I would buy those by the hundreds. *And* I would still see them live if I had a chance.

i am not going to fly to new york, pay for hotels and food and transportation around the city, as well as absurdly overpriced tickets, just for two hours of entertainment. even if i was passionate about musicals i wouldn’t do that more than once in my entire life, and i’m not passionate about them, i merely like some of them.

Like, I would love to be able to go see Hamilton and hell maybe someday I can, but do you have any idea how much it’d cost me?  And the huge investment of time it would take?

I’d have to first be able to get super expensive tickets, take off work, drive up to New York from Tennessee(a long ass drive), get a hotel, have money for food, etc. and I mean if I’m going that far I can’t do it for just one or two days because that’s literally insane; I’d have to have enough time to spend several days which is more money and more time off work, etc. 

I mean in a perfect world it’d be great but I’m not rich and that would be a HUGE investment.  I want to do it, badly, but you know what, Dragon*con is more important to me, and that’s already an investment of time off, money, travel, etc.  I have other things in my life, but I’m also a huge Hamilton fan- I just can’t make it my number one priority like they basically insist you do if you want to be able to go to a show.  

I would happily pay to say it in a movie theater or buy a DVD…I mean fuck let’s be honest; I’d do both!  I have no problem spending money on my fandoms and in fact I do so gladly and frequently and I don’t regret those purchases, but I’m not rich enough/in a position where I can drop hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a fandom at once.  I just can’t, and it’s really unfair to demand that of people and then act all huffy and suggest that people aren’t interested in musical theater.  There is literally no reason not to film these things- and don’t start with the “but live theater is a different experience!” thing with me because of course it is; I don’t honestly think there is anyone out there who doesn’t realize that.  

Of course live theater is different, and if we could afford it and had access to it I’m sure 95% of fans would chose the live experience over anything else, but it’s fucked up to essentially punish people for liking something just because you think they should have the “full experience.”  It’s like…it’s like the way my dad is super picky about the quality of the music he listens to.  If it’s a badly ripped file or bad speakers or something like that, he just won’t listen to it at all, and okay sure, that’s his choice.  To me, that’s crazy.  If I want to enjoy something, I’ll enjoy it however I can get it, even knowing I could have theoretically had better, because if that ‘better’ isn’t within my reach, I can make do and still have fun.  

The domestic terrorists who seized the Malheur national wildlife refuge near Bend, OR, are operating with incredible impunity, destroying public property, breaking into federal databases and disrupting sites of archaeological and sacred indigenous interest.

Though the terrorists sometimes face criminal sanctions for theft of public property when they venture out of their armed compound, their ideological leader, Ammon Bundy, has been able to come and go freely from the site, even after reports of the destruction surfaced.

The terrorists have paved a new road through the refuge, over territory that is considered archaeologically significant; the reserve itself encompasses many Paiute burial sites that the band holds sacred.

The terrorists claim to be there on the Paiute’s behalf. Paiute band leaders do not want their help, and are outraged at the disruption of their traditional lands by a racist terror-cell.

Not, like, humanized or in disguise, but you are literally flirting and falling in love with Thr’akloaghalr, The Ten-Dimensional Wind, who lies dreaming on N’krgh’th the Iron Star in his multiple-limbed eldritch glory

Who is also fully voiced and it’s a terrible mishmash of voice acting, autotune and spliced in sound effects

You have to remember facts like I POSSESS FORTY-TWO SEPARATE GENDERS WHICH ALL SOUND LIKE A DYING LOON’S CRY and MY FAVORITE COLOR IS THAT WHICH BLEEDS THROUGH THE REALMS BUT PINK IS A CLOSE SECOND

“THE LOVER”

SO IT IS WRITTEN THAT YOU WILL BE THE CHOSEN PARTNER OF EITHER ONE OF THE ELDER GODS

OR

ONE OF THE OUTER LORDS

THERE ARE RIVALRIES BETWEEN THEM ALL. 

LAYERS UPON LAYERS OF INTRIGUE AND INTERDIMENSIONAL MADNESS. WILL YOU WIN THE (MULTIPLE) HEARTS OF YOUR CHOSEN BELOVED?