THE BAND’S VISIT recoups after 11 months

[jacobsnchz14]

"'The Band's Visit' recoups after 11 months on Broadway" by Broadway News' Caitlin Huston - "“The Band’s Visit” has recouped its $8.75 million capitalization after 11 months on Broadway, the producers announced Monday. ...

“We are deeply grateful to the artists, collaborators and colleagues who have worked with us tirelessly to bring ‘The Band’s Visit’ to Broadway,” producers Orin Wolf, John Styles and John Hart said in the press release. “It has brought us all such joy to see audiences connect with this story of strangers finding common ground through small acts of kindness.”

“The Band’s Visit” hit its highest gross, $1.56 million, in the week ended Dec. 31, 2017, along with the many other shows that gained a boost from the holiday week." http://bway.ly/268izr

[BroadwayConcierge]

Amazing news! So happy for this beautiful show, and always happy to see that you don’t need to be a big, lavish thing to be successful on Broadway

[laurensambrose]

So happy for everyone involved! Here's to a long and healthy run for this beautiful show :)

[RippedMan]

More *original musicals please! 

 

*I know this isn't an original musical, but it's not based on a popular movie and not expecting to sell based on its name. 

[dramamama611]

Aww....good for them!   

[HogansHero]

RippedMan said: "More *original musicals please!

*I know this isn't an original musical, but it's not based on a popular movie and not expecting to sell based on its name."

You make a good distinction. If we advocate for truly original musicals, we advocate against most of the greatest musicals. I don't have a problem per se with musicals based on films that ARE popular. What I don't like are musicals of any source that are lazy, which correlates aggressively with popular movie adaptations as it happens. 

 

[Synecdoche2]

Out of curiosity, what are these great musicals that are totally original? Everything I can think of that's traditionally highly regarded is based on some other existing material (excepting maybe The Music Man).

[dramamama611]

Next to Normal

The Scottsboro Boys

The Drowsy Chaperone

Spelling Bee

Avenue Q

 

Just off the top of my head.

[RaisedOnMusicals]

dramamama611 said: "Next to Normal

The Scottsboro Boys

The Drowsy Chaperone

Spelling Bee

Avenue Q



Just off the top of my head."

Wouldn't Dear Evan Hansen be on this list? For a second I was going to ask about Hamilton though that was actually based on Ron Chernow's biography. So I guess it was based in part on "some existing material." But DEH is, I believe, completely original.

In addition, there was a book written by James Haskins published in 1994 called "The Scottsboro Boys" which I'd argue would put it in the same category as Hamilton. Original enough for me,but based (at least in part) on some preexisting material.

 

[dramamama611]

They were historically referred to as the Scottsboro Boys.  I'd guess there are many books about them with a similar title. 

It was based off an acual event, not (to the best of my knowledge) from any specific source material.

 

And yes, DEH could be on that list.  I'm sure there are many others we could put on there, I just jotted a few down.

[HogansHero]

Synecdoche2 said: "Out of curiosity, what are these great musicals that are totally original? Everything I can think of that's traditionally highly regarded is based on some other existing material (excepting maybe The Music Man)."

If you were responding to what I wrote, I said "If we advocate for truly original musicals, we advocate against most of the greatest musicals." And then, as night follows day, we get a list of musicals that the poster subjectively thinks are great which just mucks up the subject.

[Mister Matt]

Spelling Bee was an adaptation of the play, C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E.

But add to the list:
Caroline, or Change
In the Heights