Posted Apr 18, 2019, 12:51 AM UTC
Frankly, I’m surprised that they’ve lasted this long. Not because it isn’t a delightfully fun show and landmark institution, but because peoples’ entertainment tastes have changed. This sort of live action variety show pre-dates movie theaters and even those are struggling in the Netflix era. Hopefully everyone lands on their feet okay here. It’s been a great run
Theater isn't dying. It's just dying in SF.
This. People are actually starved for live entertainment and human interaction. I think we’re gonna see more audience interaction productions do well because our screen filled lives have made human interaction so uncommon, but we are still social animals.
Yeah, I mean, have these people never heard of Hamilton? Theater is huge right now and only getting bigger.
So true.
So sad, this was a San Francisco staple. The city is changing so much, too many long time spots closing their doors.
We're witnessing the generification of San Francisco.
I wouldn't consider that gentrification... nothing is being improved or replaced, things are just closing.
Generification.
SF used to be a city for artists, weirdos, and outcasts. It's losing that as those people are priced out and replaced by upper-middle-class white collar workers and becoming increasingly generic.
Did you even read the article. She is retiring and unwilling to let anyone take over after she leaves. They weren't priced out...
Edit: Nevermind
Man that’s sad! Such a funny show. Go see it!
San Francisco is dying.
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lol
There's no humor there.
It was sarcastic. San Francisco is changing, not dying. Shows don't run forever.
A cultural institution that grew out of street theater is closing, nothing will replace it. That's an example of something dying, not changing.
You're right, shows close...and so? People are bummed, and the timing feels like it represents more. Why is that a lol to you? Are you auditioning as The Joker for Reddit Summerstock?
I watched this almost 14 years ago. I loved it! Too bad.
I really enjoyed it when I took my parents. My hipster cousin scoffed at me for going. I'm taking another tourist friend this summer now that I have heard this news.
Saw it last year, absolutely loved it.
I haven’t seen ads for it on BART in years...
ALways meant to go and then 11 years went by...
None of these posters have seen the show and those who actually live in the neighborhood don’t care.
SF is becoming straight-up boring now. It’s turning into just another city to pay too much to drink in...
It's an unpopular view but we REALLY need another tech nuclear winter.
ha ... no we don't, we just need to support cultural institutions and do more preservation.
I don't think we need a tech crash per se, but we need something to happen to splinter the industry so it's not so heavily weighted into a geographically constricted area with low housing availability.
Even if the cities these companies have their HQs in increased new housing development 10 times the current rate it still wouldn't be enough, and they'd hit capacity pretty quickly since they're hemmed in by water on one side and protected mountains on the other.
Its changing, that's for sure.
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