> I can read Wikipedia too and know what Cameron Mackintosh
> did, but that doesn't get away from the fact that 200
> investors is a stretch of anyone's imagination, even
> yours...well maybe not. Maybe there was 200 shareholders
> in RUG or Mackintosh's company at the time, that could
> explain it, but 200 individual investors is utter
> bollocks.
>
It's established tradition that is basically steeped in community, and made plausible by sheer numbers and resulting arithmatic. In a 15M production, that's 15000 thousand dollars, where there is an aportionment of the pie, so that a bunch of people put in a hundred or two hundred grand, some higher, some lower. I've seen investors with pots as low as 5K (the lowest most producers would accept from one investor). Like Jimmy Durante used to say, "Everybody wants to get into the act!"
200 x 80,000= 16,000,000 Just a scribble.
That's the nature of Broadway. Unless somebody wants to change it, that structure is not going away anytime soon without some major changes of concsiousness. A roster of 80 investors is small.
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