Neal Freiman
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14,692 appearances
180 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 11 Jun
Neal Freiman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, the big shift we're seeing right now is more plays and fewer musicals.
Plays are cheaper, and you can throw a bunch of celebrities in there like Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington last season in Othello or Daniel Radcliffe.
And it's an impressive performance.
They're just cheaper, and the economics work out much better, and people are going to plays more than musicals.
This season, attendance at plays was up 14%.
Attendance at musicals was down 17%.
5%.
So what you typically associate Broadway with is musicals, but it's really plays that are driving much of the revenue growth for the industry right now.
I mean, and it's just basic economics.
It's economics 101.
There's been only one musical
since 2022 that has managed to recoup its investment and that's the outsiders none of them have have achieved that mark and so for people of us who love broadway and who love musicals yes it was a banner season was a record-breaking season but the fact is we're seeing a shrinking number of musicals growing number of plays
Apple, the underdog.
The real underdog came out of nowhere to absolutely clean up.
Yeah, Schmigadoon was based on an Apple TV series that ran for two seasons.
Did you see it?
No.
Sorry, I know I didn't see it.
I needed you to see it.
I saw Death of a Salesman.
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