If you’re going to respond and then immediately block someone after you say somethign without giving them a chance to respond, and they last thing you said wasn’t “I”m just going to block you” then chances are you’re the one in the wrong. Because you say your point and don’t give a response to allow for a counterargument. It means you don’t even want to give the person you’re debating with a chance to say their piece. I mean, I’m all for having a civil conversation, but for that to happen, @johandersen, you need to be willing to listen to first hand accounts rather than continue to believe what’s essentially a game of telephone.
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No but seriously.
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.
The film industry was partially founded on the idea of making theater more accessible to people who couldn’t patronize Broadway. When did the theater industry decide that film was its enemy?
No wait, I’m not done.
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!
For fuck’s sake even the Metropolitan Opera has a partnership with one movie theater chain to livestream their productions because they understand this very basic concept that people will pay to experience something they really want to but not if they can’t afford it.
Also, What does it say that every time a musical is filmed and released, it always has big named stars attached to it, it’s always labeled with ‘movie of the year’ and always tops the box office for the weekend it’s released?
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.
I can think of three live shows filmed, off the top of my head (Rent, Shrek and Cats) and they’re all very well done, (i mean, cats as a show is kind of generic) I own a copy of all three, and to be honest I’d rather have copies of these shows as filmed on stage then the ones i have that are actual movies. Stage performance is an entirely different medium than film performance and you can’t really encourage people to embrace a new art form if youc ant expose them to it.
The Met opera, the RSC and other high-profile theater groups have been doing filmed simulcasts for years now, where the show gets broadcast to movie theaters live, and occasinally replayed. That’s how I saw Frankenstein with Cumberbatch. Why Broadway has not hopped on this train is baffling.
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.
The musical is supposed to be the entertainment of the populace, not just the ridiculously wealthy.
new yorkers think new york is the entire world, apparently.
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.
i like some of them enough that i would buy a dvd, or pay 5 bucks to stream it on itunes. millions of people feel the same. you wanna sell millions of dvds? you wanna sell millions of $5 streams? i dunno, apparently not.
ALL OF THIS!
THIS SO MUCH. I would buy so many Broadway DVDs.
I would also like to point out that it’s not just Broadway specifically it’s the ENTIRE live theatre industry. As in, the smaller theatres that the Broadway cast tours to are affected as well.
I live in Atlanta which is home to The Fox Theatre. It’s a fairly average-size theatre but OMG ITS GORGEOUS!! Last year I went to see Cinderella there and the moderate seating that we got (not orchestra but not nosebleeds) was over $100. Orchestra seating was closer to $200 to $500 and nosebleeds were $50 to $80.
The thing is, you gotta plan for any show you see if you don’t live in the city! My whole family is going to see Beauty and the Beast there in February and that’d be my family’s first time back there since I was little. Literal years. AND it was my Christmas AND Birthday present to see this show. Would we go more often if we had more money? Hell yeah! Do we? No. We’re fukkin broke.
EVEN HIGH SCHOOL PLAYS ARE AFFECTED!! This is general admission. High school. When I was there tickets to the big end of the year musical were $8 if you were a student and $10 do adults. Now they’re $15 for adults and $10 for students. It’s the whole entertainment industry.
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when you find smut that hits like 7 of your kinks at once
I know this feel.
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Being on the marketing team for Deadpool must be so liberating. All that dumb or outrageous stuff you’ve always wanted to do? Do it: it’s totally thematically appropriate.
Wanna make an R-rated action film look like a sappy romance? Do it.
Wanna put up a giant billboard consisting of two emojis and a giant letter ‘L?’ Sure, why not?
Wanna publicly mock everyone who didn’t get the emoji joke by making a serious poster with their terrible interpretation instead of the film name? Go ahead!
Marketing Deadpool is the job-stress outlet most of us can only dream of.
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If Straight People joke that their friends are gay, then do Gay People joke that their friends are straight?
yes
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Finished this week’s Patreon commission!! This week someone asked for Toriel holding fire in that position but as a bigger pixel.
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she’s really gone good riddance.
Hey, where the fuck do you get off? Why can’t you jsut leave it alone? Like, you’re worse than a 4chan user.
this wasn’t even fucking tagged and I haven’t interacted or talked about deyogee in like a month so maybe I’m not the one who needs to “leave it alone.”
Regardless, your response is uncalled for and rude. If you had “left it alone” as you said, you wouldn’t have made this remark in the first place.
Grow up and learn some humility.
she’s literally been going on our blogs, like checking them every few days/hours idk or so even though we all agreed to leave it alone, just to make sure we aren’t still talking about her, and then when I decide to make a one sentence untagged vague about her for the first time in a while she flips the fuck out. like do you seriously think she’s not in the wrong here.
Do you even know how this started? Someone was claiming to be a fictional character in saying said character was canonically trans, when they in fact are not. This turned into a stupid game of telephone and now deyos about to commit suicide.
