{"id":2243682,"date":"2024-05-13T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-produced-broadway-musical-a-bust\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:24:05","slug":"hillary-clinton-produced-broadway-musical-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-produced-broadway-musical-a-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed Broadway Musical Produced by Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillary-clinton-produced-broadway-musical-a-bust%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2243682&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Broadway musical &#8220;Suffs,&#8221; produced by Hillary Clinton\u2062 and Malala Yousafzai, struggles \u200dwith \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matrix-resurrections-co-producer-sues-warner-bros-after-low-ticket-sales-blames-lackluster-showing-on-streaming-and-piracy\/\" title=\"\u2018Matrix: Resurrections\u2019 Co-Producer Sues Warner Bros. After Low Ticket Sales, Blames Lackluster Showing On Streaming And Piracy\">low ticket sales<\/a>, ranking in the bottom 23% of all Broadway\u200d shows. Despite an 81% seat occupancy in one\u2063 week, it dropped to 78% in \u200bthe following. Directed by Leigh Silverman, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-show-depicts-religious-jews-as-dumb-bigots-the-most-anti-semitic-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-tv\/\" title=\"NBC Show Depicts Religious Jews As Dumb Bigots: \u2018The Most Anti-Semitic Thing I\u2019ve Ever Seen On TV\u2019\">show depicts<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-activists-smash-protective-glass-panel-of-historic-painting-in-london-national-gallery\/\" title=\"Climate activists vandalize historic painting in London National Gallery by smashing protective glass panel.\">suffragette movement<\/a> in 1913. More details can be found on the show&#8217;s website. The Broadway musical &#8220;Suffs,&#8221; produced by Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-todays-boys-could-use-an-old-fashioned-war-movie\/\" title=\"Why Today\u2019s Boys Could Use An Old-Fashioned War Movie\">facing challenges<\/a> with poor ticket sales, placing it in the \u2062bottom 23% of Broadway shows. Although it reached an 81% seat occupancy in one week, this \u200bfigure dropped \u200bto 78% in the following week. Directed by Leigh Silverman, the show portrays the suffragette movement in 1913. For additional information, visit the show&#8217;s website.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hillary-clinton-trashed-for-making-barbie-oscars-snubs-about-herself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hillary Clinton<\/a>-produced Broadway musical \u201cSuffs,\u201d about the suffragette movement of the 1900s, is turning out to be a bust as the show has failed to sell out seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The stage play \u2014 co-produced by Clinton and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Malala Yousafzai \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/12\/us-news\/hillary-clinton-produced-play-suffs-failing-to-pack-seats-during-peak-broadway-season\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=nypost\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">finished<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in the bottom 23% of all 35 shows on Broadway in terms of filling the theater for the week ending May 5, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayleague.com\/research\/grosses-broadway-nyc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Broadway League.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the Broadway Theatre\u2019s Industry official site, \u201cSuffs\u201d only managed to reach an 81% capacity across eight performances that week.  <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The play did even worse the following week ending May 12, with the musical only filling 78% of its 7,784 seats across all performances, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/12\/us-news\/hillary-clinton-produced-play-suffs-failing-to-pack-seats-during-peak-broadway-season\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=nypost\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The musical \u2014 directed by Leigh Silverman \u2014 was written by singer-songwriter Shaina Taub. It is produced by Jill Furman and Rachel Sussman, along with co-producers Clinton and Yousafzai. It is one of the newer shows on Broadway after it officially opened last month. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hillary Clinton-produced play \u2018Suffs\u2019 failing to pack seats during peak Broadway season <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mz7xz6NmmT\">https:\/\/t.co\/mz7xz6NmmT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/36yhLRaK3u\">pic.twitter.com\/36yhLRaK3u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1789512144892923989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The play is nearly 3 hours long and takes place in 1913 when the \u201cwomen\u2019s movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists \u2014 \u201cSuffs,\u201d as they call themselves \u2014 and their relentless pursuit of the right to vote,\u201d a description on the show\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/suffsmusical.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cReaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight,\u201d it added. \u201cSo much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment over a century ago, and yet we\u2019re reminded sometimes we need to look back, in order to march fearlessly into the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1nthknow\/status\/1788583185393049758\/video\/1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  about the play, Clinton said she felt she could relate to \u200b\u200b\u201call of\u201d the characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI know how important it is to have relationships with the people you\u2019re working for, as you\u2019re taking risks and you\u2019re doing things that have never been done, whether it\u2019s running for president in my case or having a march on Washington in 1913 to try to convince the president and the Congress to adopt the amendment to let women vote,\u201d Clinton told the AP, referencing when she ran for president in 2016 and lost to former President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also talked about the 2024 election and said she sees this play as \u201crelevant to today. We have a lot of challenges in our country \u2026 I think having a play about voting in the election year could not be better timed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1486-watch-hillary-clinton-s-musical-is-worse-than-you-think1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daily Wire host Michael Knowles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  recently discussed on his podcast that \u201cdespite a concerted promotional effort by the establishment media\u201d and a cast made up entirely of \u201cfemales or gender non-binary cast,\u201d the musical is failing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Broadway musical &#8220;Suffs,&#8221; focusing on the suffragette movement, disappoints with poor ticket sales. Co-produced by Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, the show ranked in the bottom 23% of all 35 Broadway productions in seat occupancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2243683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/10\/Untitled-design-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/10\/Untitled-design-80.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}