Mind-boggling how their business case predicted all 54 shows would sell out.
Talk about working in a self-celebrating bubble.
There’s hardly a musical on the planet that would sell out 54 shows.
In reality they only sold 10% of that.
I’ve 3 kids 11 and under and I don’t know a single family who went to see it or even expressed any interest in it. It wasn’t considered anything you’d bother with. How did it ever get made in the first place. It was promoted non stop too.
Is this like the Producers where they make it flop on purpose to scam money
> RTÉ sold just 11,044 tickets across 27 performances ….
> Comp and guest tickets made up 5,573 total audience members…
Jesus wept. They had to given half the tickets away to get people to go. Why weren’t the people responsible fired?
In any other organisation such catastrophic failure would result in dismissal, without question.
From what I heard from people in the theatre circle, the behind the scenes stories were INSANE. Trying to overwork children, a certain prop became a massive safety hazard, RTE tried to get an actual theatre to play in but the theatre community shut them out because they were seemingly trying to take business away from the pantos and that’s how they ended up in the convention centre.
On top of that, the writer of the musical is giving out rn on Twitter about being underpaid.
They also made a loss of at least a million every year on Ryan turbidy.
I feel like they fundamentally misunderstood that a good chunk of Toy Show viewership is to shitpost about it, not actually engage with it.
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13770.19375 license fees to be exact
For a vanity project
Mind-boggling how their business case predicted all 54 shows would sell out.
Talk about working in a self-celebrating bubble.
There’s hardly a musical on the planet that would sell out 54 shows.
In reality they only sold 10% of that.
I’ve 3 kids 11 and under and I don’t know a single family who went to see it or even expressed any interest in it. It wasn’t considered anything you’d bother with. How did it ever get made in the first place. It was promoted non stop too.
Is this like the Producers where they make it flop on purpose to scam money
> RTÉ sold just 11,044 tickets across 27 performances ….
> Comp and guest tickets made up 5,573 total audience members…
Jesus wept. They had to given half the tickets away to get people to go. Why weren’t the people responsible fired?
In any other organisation such catastrophic failure would result in dismissal, without question.
From what I heard from people in the theatre circle, the behind the scenes stories were INSANE. Trying to overwork children, a certain prop became a massive safety hazard, RTE tried to get an actual theatre to play in but the theatre community shut them out because they were seemingly trying to take business away from the pantos and that’s how they ended up in the convention centre.
On top of that, the writer of the musical is giving out rn on Twitter about being underpaid.
They also made a loss of at least a million every year on Ryan turbidy.
I feel like they fundamentally misunderstood that a good chunk of Toy Show viewership is to shitpost about it, not actually engage with it.