What Was the Biggest Monetary Flop?- Page 5
What Was the Biggest Monetary Flop?
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#100re: What Was the Biggest Monetary Flop?
Posted: 9/13/20 at 4:24pm
itsjustmejonhotmailcom said: "Jarethan said: "It would be interesting to know what show lost the most, adjusted for inflation, but that is not likely to happen unless some PhD candidate statistician tries to do it (and where would the data be?).
It would just take some googling and simple arithmetic. No PhD stats candidate needed."
Go for it.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#101re: What Was the Biggest Monetary Flop?
Posted: 9/13/20 at 6:19pm
Jarethan said: "itsjustmejonhotmailcom said: "Jarethan said: "It would be interesting to know what show lost the most, adjusted for inflation, but that is not likely to happen unless some PhD candidate statistician tries to do it (and where would the data be?).
It would just take some googling and simple arithmetic. No PhD stats candidate needed."
Go for it."
this site: 750k in 1970 is only 5M today. How much is that in today's dollars?
bowtie7
Stand-by Joined: 7/27/11
#102re: What Was the Biggest Monetary Flop?
Posted: 9/13/20 at 6:45pm
Moving beyond Broadway, The Han Show, Wuhan China with a reported budget of $300 million could possibly top Spiderman.
If you are not familiar with the show, it is a cirque-style water pageant created Franco Dragone in a custom built theatre designed by the late Mark Fisher where all 2,000 seats move. The traditional proscenium theatre transforms at a critical moment when the orchestra level seats pivot/rotate to become side seats while the entire mezzanine lowers to the ground level, the theatre now in a thrust configuration revealing a giant pool of water at the center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCK5pWpybe8
ARTc3
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
#103re: What Was the Biggest Monetary Flop?
Posted: 9/14/20 at 2:57am
It was epic. Unfortunately, the audience the night I attended didn't understand theater etiquette. Rudely arriving late, trying to get the other members of his party to find him by using his tablet device to flash light on them. I was besides myself at this jerk's sense of entitlement.
I actually traveled to Wuhan to see The Han Show. I saw a pre opening marketing video and was so impressed I hoped that one day I would be able to see a performance. I thought it would never happen.
I was working for IBM at the time and a day or two later, I was asked to fly to Shanghai. I knew it was fate and put in for a few owed vacation days. From Shanghai, I flew to Wuhan. I saw The Han Show and experienced Wanda Movie Park. Both where amazing.
The Han Show was sort of dull before the theater transformation, but soon the theater reconfigured itself and the show got progressively better.
ARTc3 formerly ARTc. Actually been a poster since 2004. My name isn't Art. Drop the "3" and say the signature and you'll understand.
Oldies m
Chorus Member Joined: 8/28/18
#104re: What Was the Biggest Monetary Flop?
Posted: 9/20/20 at 2:11pm
Moose Murders
A Play so bad that it closed on broadway the day it premiered
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#105re: What Was the Biggest Monetary Flop?
Posted: 9/20/20 at 4:12pm
Oldies m said: "Moose Murders
A Play so bad that it closed on broadway the day it premiered
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What does that have anything to do with this thread?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
