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> > 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.
No it isn't the nature of Broadway at all. It might be for the odd show or two, but it isn't the nature.
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