My comment wasn’t about his artistic intent, though - it’s a separate issue. His work is clearly resonating with some people and I think that’s great.
I was more talking about the medium itself. Who goes to see stage plays generally speaking and who goes to see broadway plays as a matter of course? I don’t think it SHOULD be an inaccessibly space and I think it’s great that he’s working to broaden who sees plays. But I think it has historically been an inaccessible space and expecting that to change over night, especially when his work as gotten so much attention, it’s… I’m not sure how to put it really. I think that it’s a medium that in general has a limited audience in our society.
I think that’s fair enough. Is it just about the scalpers, though? The popularity of the show itself might be driving inaccessibility, in addition to where the play is being performed. So, if broadway is proving inaccessibly, how can that be surmounted… Plus, who is going to see the play in the first place and who wants to see the play in the first place?
When you charge for anything and increase the price over time, I don’t think it’s hard to see what will happen over the long term. If might not have been planned as a bourgeois event, but it was certainly in some sense, an event for a specific group of people… how ever you want to define that. Now it tends to be an event that draws people who can afford the time to go… that’s not everyone in our society.
That’s an awful lot of money for some, though.
