Broadway aan de Amstel - The Netherlands

I can't imagine it will be something epic like something rotten, colour purple, book of mormon or so.
I mean sales for pippin weren't going great, and I think that despite it's the whole purpose of Broadway aan de Amstel, they're afraid of booking something that's only known by die hard theatre go-ers.

So I think the chances are bigger its a Priscilla tour (I mean no one cares about Priscilla really, but they got themself a stage at the Uitmarkt), again a JCS/Ted Neeley thing or an old name. As new names and the Netherlands lately don't do much good, and we're too good at bringing revivals

How well did the Priscilla tour sell in Amsterdam? Was it successful enough to warrant a return? Mind you - we had tickets for the Sunday afternoon performance after the terrorist attack on Le Bataclan in Paris on Friday evening and we were really a little bit worried about going. In the end we were glad we did as it helped to overcome the initial fear for other attacks in theatres. But I wonder if people were put off going to the theatre for a while.

I think Book of Mormon would sell well enough. Dutch audiences (in my experience) are fairly open-minded when it comes to new shows and BoM can be marketed as the huge smash hit from Broadway, written by the South Park people and so on. It's a whole other calibre than Pippin which was really just a somewhat creative revival of an old show that was never really a big hit anywhere.

I wonder if people were put off by the lack of surtitles? You are so used to them in cinemas and on television, people may have been struggling to follow Pippin without. But honestly, while I didn't mind having seen it (after some people praised it to the skies on Broadway) and never mind spending a weekend in Amsterdam (sometimes we just drive to and fro for the day but in this case we had booked a hotel, spent some time wandering around, shopping, having nice meals, etc.) Pippin just wasn't very good in the end and I wouldn't necessarily have people that it's a must-see they shouldn't miss.

I don't think that's really a problem because the fact that they've always had subtitles also means they've always been confronted with English and learn it by watching films an Tv as opposed to French, Germans, Spanish, Italians who dub everything and aren't confronted with English that often. 

Oh, I didn't know there were that many people who weren't able to understand it. Maybe they should get surtitles then. It's doesn't really have a negative impact for the people who do understand it, so why not. Although even though I have no problem understanding whatsoever, I do feel that if the subtitles are there for some reason I automatically read them, which sucks because I then spend more time staring at the screen than watching the actual show     

or another Lion King or another Ciske...