Cover Band vs Theme Park

[bermudagold]

Would you rather go listen to a cover band...or go to an immersive interactive broadway style revue of the career of your favorite artists?...does it matter whether the artist/band is still alive?...industry is betting with NIL deals, that this is something ur gonna want...not sure its for me...think I'd rather just hear a cover band or stick to recorded media of the real thing

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ ... hope-road/

[BertKoor]

Bob Marley Hope Road, an immersive entertainment experience years in the making, officially opens with preview shows beginning June 25 at Mandalay Bay Resort.

Who/what is PrimaryWave? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Wave_(company)
(tl;dr: it's a relatively small (compared to eg Sony) music publishing company which owns the rights to the catalogue of Bob Marley, Nirvana, and many others)

Mandalay Bay is in Las Vegas. What they do there is not representative of what's done elsewhere in the world. Ticket prices are usually outrageous, so yeah I'd rather go to a cover band or just put on the CD or a DVD with a documentary. But their argument: it's not the same experience. And they're probably right.

Worth it? Would I go? Not so relevant. I'm not going to Vegas for sure (been there, done that, the US has to un-MAGA first) but I have been to the Dutch adaptation of The Bodyguard musical featuring lots of Whitney Houston songs.

Do enough people go? They apparently think so. Do check again in some months. When Mandalay Bay has put it off the agenda, then apparently it was not profitable enough. That's all business decisions. Not my world at all.

[Bunny_boy]

Apparently the Bobster's estate is worth $500m

[bermudagold]

Mandalay Bay is in Las Vegas. What they do there is not representative of what's done elsewhere in the world.
but I have been to the Dutch adaptation of The Bodyguard musical featuring lots of Whitney Houston songs.

but that's just it...with the new legal framework around NIL...plus the fact so many artists have made deals cashing out their publishing since royalties appear to be diminishing due to streaming...the industry is betting on precisely this at destinations all over the world...betting that music fans will want it...that's why many companies are forming to do this raising venture capital to go on publishing buying sprees...it's a pretty transformational shift in the industry to traditional publishing and royalties system in reaction to current technology impact...early experiments are getting higher ROIs than artist expansive tours

was that bodyguard musical a hit over there?

[osiris]

SRO

[vurt]

Apparently the Bobster's estate is worth $500m

i knew a couple of his nephews in manchester, they didnt come across as rich, no fancy cars.

well, thats not quite true, when fin got his first advance, he did go a bit mental with money, but that wasnt from the estate.

[BertKoor]

[...] the new legal framework around NIL...

I had to google that: Name, Image, and Likeness. Most search results pertain to college athletes

was that bodyguard musical a hit over there?

It ran for almost two years here, with a comeback of half a year later. In a venue with ca 1400 seats, I guess it did fine. The "Tina" (turner) musical ran for four years in the same venue, but that also spanned the whole pandemic era.

There certainly is a trend. Where decades ago musicals brought original scripts and songs, recently it turned into regurgitating existing material: Mama Mia, We Will Rock You, On Your Feet, etc etc.

Apparently they (producers) think the public wants to go for "familiar" material. Like, if you can sell the same old "Dark Side Of The Moon" on new media again and again, from a business perspective that makes sense. But it's not good for distribution of wealth / royalties. But hey, capitalism is the game of maximising profit!

For the personnel it doesn't matter I guess. This gives semi-steady jobs to singers, dancers, musicians, technicians etc.

[bermudagold]

Apparently the Bobster's estate is worth $500m

I guess that's why it seems every relative no matter how distant is employed by the estate...or is releasing music of their own riding the marley brand mystique...i guess you milk the cash cow until its dry

[FranklyFlawless]

Would you rather go listen to a cover band...or go to an immersive interactive broadway style revue of the career of your favorite artists?

Neither.