Just read a story on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/06/17/holmes.broadway.ap/index.html
I’m not upset that Katie Holmes is going to be on Broadway. I wish her all the best…or would if she and I ever spoke.
What bothers me about this are TICKET PRICES!!!
Come on, people. You’re performing Arthur Miller for God’s sake. You can’t justify the ticket prices with pyrotechnics. Why the hell are you charging this much? Because you can?
Theater, especially Broadway, is becoming the exclusive realm of the wealthy. It shouldn’t be. We need to restore an egalitarianism to the theater if we have any hope of continuing to grow a new generation of theater-goers and theater practitioners.
Put Katie Holmes or Daniel Radcliffe in a play…great.
Sell lots of tickets…great.
Extend the run so that everyone who wants to can see it…great
Or, hmm…let me see…following the course of current Broadway logic: Charge $1000 per seat and get one night’s performance out of it.
Theater is for everyone!