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pidunk 09:28 am UTC 04/29/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Andrew Lloyd Moneybags - rockfenris2005 08:01 am UTC 04/29/07 |
I see some expressions that I feel are sometimes a little primitive when referring to Broadway productions. It is not that I have a well of experience from which to draw, but growing up in the vicinity and having the basic education that I have had, casual and college alike to some degree, I don't know why some people have the impression that funds would come from one single source; so it is plausible and probably a routine thing, for there to be as many as two hundred investors for a large scale production. Movie financing looks alot more like construction financing when a bank might be the source of funds, but that is because the movie industry and the construction industry are "industries" where Broadway keeps itself in the Community sphere of structure. It is the Broadway community, which draws life to Broadway productions, and one sees the satire of this in "The Producers" but the structure when taken seriously is the same, but with its own brand of debauchery where it may be subject. Money comes to a Broadway production in some of the same ways that money comes into an IPO on the stock market. The closely known favored investors are rung up in solicitations and the pool is grown from those who see acceptable risks to the investment. Then they watch it, like one watches a horse race. I may be very simplistic and in some ways ignorant in the way I describe it, but at least it explains why funding for a production is not so absolute as what someone's opinion may be. > > > Yes cos writing a musical about singing and dancing cats > > was a dead cert for success ;o) > > > > Pud > > Well, it took 200 investors to mount "Cats". But that's > not the point. Despite his huge successes with "Jesus > Christ Superstar", "Evita", "Cats" and "The Phantom Of The > Opera", he hasn't had a major hit in 20 years. If "The > Phantom Of Manhattan" goes down it could end his career. > If it succeeds, it could be like BAT II > | |
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