The Perfect Crime…
Perfect Crime celebrated a milestone performance, its 9,000th — yes, you read that correctly, NINE THOUSAND performances. THE SHOW HAS BEEN RUNNING FOR TWENTY-TWO (yes, 22) YEARS!!!
It’s a low budget show, written by an unknown… There are no Broadway or Hollywood stars. It sometimes gets mixed reviews… But there’s an energy (in the form of wonder woman Catherine Russell) that keeps it going, and it seems that’s what people are coming to see.
According to the Off-Broadway League:
Since its premiere, the show has been seen by 1.5 million theatre-goers, 80,478 onstage gunshots have been fired, 4,862 prop coffee cakes have been consumed, hundreds of actors have been employed by the show and Catherine Russell [the leading lady and general manager at the Snapple Theatre] has spent the equivalent of two years of her life onstage – over 16,000 hours!
Though there’s a lot of gloom and doom you’ll read out there about how theatre is hurting, (and there’s no doubt business is hurting), it’s the energy that people want to be close to, and it seems someone’s figured that out — thereby keeping a show running through anything!
–Sue
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