This Fall's Biggest Musicals Are Opening Off Broadway

NPR reported that this fall's biggest musicals are opening off Broadway, and that the choice is connected in part to cost. According to NPR's report, a show in a smaller theater is "less expensive" to produce than one in a larger Broadway house. The piece, written by Jeff Lunden, is framed around the question of why the shift is occurring.

The summary of the report also says that smaller venues carry risks, though the summary available to this newspaper ends before describing them. NPR's account of those risks, and of how producers weigh them against the savings, cannot be reported here from the material at hand.

Nothing in the available material names the productions involved, the theaters that will host them, or their opening dates. Each of those details would have to come from the full NPR text, which was not consulted for this account. The headline and the summary are the only elements of the report that can be stated with confidence.

Readers who want the complete reasoning and examples should consult the original NPR article.

Sources: NPR: Why this fall's biggest musicals are opening off Broadway.