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And Turn off the Dark needs to be sold out every day for those 10 years.
Which is not possible.
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I don't think Les Mis is on Broadway anymore. West End, maybe, but Les Mis' most recent revival closed a while ago.
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You got a point.
The main thing is that Turn Off The Dark getting its money back is impossible.
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Should've looked at The Fantasticks as a model - cast of eight people, very minimal sets/props, orchestra consisting of two people.
Ran for forty years and the investors got back their money 240 times.
edited 9th Aug '11 9:20:51 PM by Pannic
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Nothing like that could get big anymore.
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It's easy, mmkay?
It would have been funny and profitable if they had intentionally used no special effects and gone for pure Coconut Superpowers for the whole show.
At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...
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Less is More, sometimes, particularly in theatre.
The current Les Mis tour doesn't even use the usual revolving stage.
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^ Good. I love Les Miserables but I've never liked that part much.
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Edited by PatchworkSpace on Jul 5th 2020 at 3:45:10 PM
Current tour actually changes the opening scene to rowing in a galley ship.
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I'm pretty sure none of the top earners are.
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