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Themis
i would hope they have set AP/NY/LA to do both music/theatre and yodelling , 24 hours a day production
3 venues x 24 hours 72 hours a day to film -------------------
Would be wonderful if New York was being set up as a venue for theatre productions, I suppose it would need to be bigger than the LA studio. MVR did say it was a ‘priority’ to get this going. They need to build on this weekend with more news as soon as Wireless is over, else it will be back to the silent treatment and waiting game again.
Well that's very interesting for 2 points and i didnt see any issues with those posts but didnt add it up ------------
They can leave racist and sexcual comments on here with no removal so this must be extremely sensitive
Only Melody could take this off then , so are they on this board .
the point I'm hoping is correct is that whilst it was a purely speculative post(it was the same post reposted) if it reflected something that is planned even in a speculative way,a company may prefer that attention isn't drawn to the possibility before it materialises.if so they could,i think,request its remove.sorry but this is all just speculation and i really don't want to set any hares running .i do not by a long way have a record of infallible predictions.
Mel
possabilities ---- 5 million theatre fans wanting to watch say 1 a week a month , how can you not see that potential .
GOOD LUCK LTH .
Maybe there is production going on, maybe the actors, actresses are all self isolating in a nearby hotel, maybe the New York Venue is production several different productions and during late summer MelodyVR/John Gore will announce a Virtual Musical to his 5 million theatre clients using a well proven subscription model!! GLA
Italian
can they do that , we only speculate on here all our opinions are fair -------------
There is no way JG will not make theatre happen with Melody , it will be on the horizon sooner .
two of mine and the original to which i linked mine.cannot recall which poster it was.i don't want to risk being deleted again so will post tonight probably.i don't really like enigmatic posts and its just speculation .,but potentially very positive.sorry to be evasive.
Italian
i thought some posts have gone missing ---------- whats happened i must of missed the content .
I hear you and, yes, bigger productions can require a staff measured in the dozens for sure but that's a bigger problem for musicals of course which don't (usually) do "small scale".
Theatre, however, can be viable with just one guy or gal on the stage so it's a different proposition in the main, hell, if it's all digital then the actors maybe don't even need to be in the same postcode as each other ;)
For my own part, I'm kinda begging someone to sort this out already as I'm pining already for my live theatre :)
Ultimately, as demonstrated by PL football, if the financial impetus is there then it will be made to happen, even if everyone involved is being tested for Covid19 twice per week as PL footballers are, it's just a matter of (probably not very much) time when you've got a catalyst like Covid19 at play ...
agreed albert.musicals will come but a little way off yet imo.also we should be barking up a different tree at the moment imo. the clue is perhaps in the deleted posts this morning.all just my opinion and probably wrong. aplogies for the enigmatic post.i may elaborate this evening.
Bonker
The JG business is musicals rather than plays, specifically Broadway and to an extent the West End i.e. high-end stuff.
He attracts nearly 15 million customers a year and has a database of nearly 5 million, so this is potentially pure gold for Melody without them having to even dig for it.
The problem is that a troupe of actors, singers, and musicians is not likely to number less than twenty , making social distancing impossible. Unfortunately this is likely to be just about the last sector that's unlocked.
Whereas Covid has actually benefitted Melody and gigs, it has had the opposite effect on the musicals. At least, as one of the bigger players, JG will survive, and may well acquire other venues that do not.
Modeller
the world has to change due to pollution etc , most humans need art/theatre and of course music , my fondest memories are concerts and festivals which i did a 25 year stint , spent say 500k on that and my record collection , my point is trillions of cash to be spent and venues shut .
lordfont,
Apologies, I plainly missed the fruits of the last year’s Gore and Melody collaboration over lockdown.
- TM
Modeller
so why has he been working / filming with Melody for the last year ??
thats before Covid , the future of the planet is changing due to foot print / David Attenborough and Coldplay ---------
Covid has accelerated Melodys position .
say 1000 shows filmed x £20 x 10,000 buys world wide , not to mad ??
this is a few years off .
lordfont,
John Gore’s organisation may well be reflecting on why they would want to distribute content, that will cannibalise it’s future revenue?
- TM
Also
this opens theatre to the rest of the planet who would never have an opportunity EVER to see a production in 360 , its mind boggling the ticket sales --------
FWIW - I easily drop a grand per year on live theatre, or I used to, and I'd like to keep spending that money on live theatre productions, however they're delivered to me.
I can't be the only guy who thinks like that - if someone was to say to me that I can't go to live theatre for at least a year but give us that grand and you can watch, say, a dozen big productions streamed live and as many smaller productions as you like for a year then I'd hand over my money today.
I may be at the extreme end of the spectrum here as I do love theatre but again, I can't be the only one.
Bonker
We think John Gore and his 2000 shows a year are a winner , Melody have been working for a year already with JG , we are guessing this will be played out in the New york venue but there is no news about this at all . the older posters can see this being very positive . so from my point of view your spot on .
It's quite likely that is exactly what will be happening when MVR open their New York studio soon... smaller theatre productions in full 360... cannot wait for that one personally.
Dear AlbertPode,
Thank you, I think this post addresses your first point. Secondly, I quoted an extract from a Rolling Stone article helpfully posted by Petebo. Furthermore the journalist, Ethan Millman was reporting on the views of wavexr.com . For ease of reference I have included the extract.
“ VR experience can still be clumsy and glitchy, and VR headsets themselves still aren’t very widely adopted. Wave has softened its focus toward VR partly because the company doesn’t think VR will hit mainstream popularity for a few years. ”
Best wishes,
TM
Very difficult to judge how anything plays out over the next year or two but as a big theatre goer myself and a member of the two biggest theatres in Birmingham, I know how screwed they are for cash now and for the very forseeable.
Somehow, they've got to get people spending money on theatre again but as pointed out, the average theatre goer is in their 50s which isn't a great age for taking C19 risks in any crowded venue.
I wonder whether theatre could not only be helped by tech like this but actually transformed by it - the dynamics of TV/film/music/theatre are all very different of course but surely the most unleveraged of all of those (because of theatre size restrictions) is theatre.
You can sell millions of "tickets" for TV/Film/music easily but you can't do it for live theatre.
What if you put 2-3 acting "greats" into a play together for a one night only live performance that everyone can watch for, say, £20? Those acting greats will be expensive but if your box office is 1m tickets x £20 then that'll raise the eyebrows of many producers in this game for sure.
That would be something genuinely new in the entertainment space IMO and it could take off as the new "thing", ironically being led by tech-adopting middle aged people perhaps :)
Bonker
You have been watching the virus in USA , the lock down could be 2 years IMO , sadly winter will be savage .
still a handsome share though , good luck i guess your in .