I did not say it was a good plan, just what I would do to get some $$ for a couple of months. I was thinking of the crowd, bit I doubt they want to give up 2 to 3 hours unless it is an early show.
Really, outside of Tenacious D tours, I have never encountered such a small production -- I know they exists just as Blue Man Group does -- I was just thinking light weight/low cost.
I also wonder what % of on site guest are there for HHN (I think a lot underestimate that #) as I have stayed for HHN in the past and felt like I ran into many like minded.
Pretty sure I recall nights at CBBR, getting off the shuttle, entering the building to see they had a crap ton of pizza boxes and a cash register to greet the hunger kids at 2AM ;-)
The cost associated with the production probably wouldn't equal the ROI they would want.
Just so you know Blue Man Group was rather cheap monetarily. The band for the show was local whereas the 9 man cast (rotating) of the show relocated. So the small cast made it beneficial for licensing out a show and their cut of the proceeds.
Compared to a full fledged musical, that's at least typically 20 people likely equity actors for a two month musical is ridiculous.
I don’t think Billy Elliot would be much of a draw. Neither would a Pitch Perfect up-charge that doesn’t feature the “real” Barton Bellas (Though I like the idea).
And there’s a simple reason it’ll stay separate from the park: it provides resort guests something to do at night.
That means it needs to be family-friendly AND independently attractive. It would actually be more profitable to license a musical Universal doesn’t own than an unattractive one they do.
Although, I think it would be fun if they used it as an out-of-town “try-out” space for in-development musicals like Ferris Bueller.
The issue will having the talent move to Orlando...most in development musicals goal are to move to Broadway with some of the cast who did the off Broadway shows. The three main locations for shows in development are So Cal, NJ, and NY due to talent willing to be in those locations.
Additionally, the question of cost comes into play, they test out a musical and it flops like Breakfast Club the musical/Cry Baby/etc, what do they do....
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Perfectly sized venue for it, maybe the national tour (whenever it happens) will be popular enough to justify it?
Beetlejuice hasn't been released yet for outside licensing....and who knows when MTI will allow the release....
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I totally forgot Universal technically has one licensed musical and one produced musical in the UK runnning right now...