Disney’s Tom Schumacher says most of our truisms (and especially Mr ______'s) about audience make up today is WRONG!
Who is buying tickets?
Well, they’re often in different categories. If you take a slightly longer view, more like 25 years, people who live in Manhattan have increased by 32 percent. What we call the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, the outside people who travel in through a tunnel or over a bridge, the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, they’re only up 12 percent. Everyone thinks that’s who’s fielding it. Not really. Foreign tourists are up over 350 percent. Domestic tourists are up over 100 percent. People under 18 are up again over 100 percent. But here’s the one that fascinates me: In the last 20, 25-ish years, people over 65 are up a couple of hundred percent because Broadway became a safer environment. Therefore, you have kids who are coming now and senior citizens who come.
Feel the flow, Hear what's happening: We're what's happening! Long ago All we had was that funny feeling, Saying someday we'd send 'em reeling, Now it looks like we can! ? Someday just began ? It's our heads on the block. Give us room and start the clock. Our time coming through, Me and you, pal, Me and you! Me and you!
Yeah, senior citizens and kids are coming all over Broadway.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali