Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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New LLS director?
New can of worms being opened here.
Staffers have been talking to Niamh.
Her cadence or rhythm of questioning is the way to go.
Coveney talks about TSTM in terms of IP and assets, like it's a business to be broken up and sold.
Andrew Lloyd Webber must have rooms full of IP and assets that'll never see the light of day. And he's successful.
They are still using that annoying word word "talent".
Coveney just said from our "talent and our staff"
Basically an elite and peasants culture at RTE.
They never had any understudies despite the size of the cast?! So cancelled a weekend when they had sold 6k tickets.
New he would bring up owning the sets and the songbook zzz
I heard him before blaming
COVID,
the Christmas market,
its a New show that will take time to grow 😲😒,
There's no accountability so, no one is held to account,
When it's not your money, they don't care
Are you mad. His erroneous methods of renumeration and subsequent denials and failure to face the public instead choosing to issue an apology to the media is partly the reason behind the whole fiasco.
Coveney asked: was the toy show musical a success?"
He says: "Oh yes it was"
The chair says" Oh no it wasn't!!!"
Repurposed for a documentary in to how not to blow money.
Coveney claimed Dublin is a big city.
Dublin is not a big city - it's a very small Panto market in the scheme of things.
Deputy Smyth is from a regional theatre background.
There's a surprise!
TSTM wasn't a panto, just happened to be on at Xmas?
"if we bring the show back"
Jesus Rory, just let it go!
"if we are ever bringing this back"
Lol....
9000 free tickets...ffs
Good for you. I’m sure you loved Toy Show The Musical as well.
I'd love if a price was put on what the ads for The Musical would have cost if money had to be charged for them, had to be in the millions.
What’s wrong with that? Forklift driving is good honest work.
34 children and 16 adults in the cast....bloody heck...that is huge cast wise!
The toy show was possibly a jobs for the boys number, maybe designed to fail. It needs investigating. Where and to whom did the €2.2 million go? Was it to Rory's pals in the biz?
TSTM - An alternative to the big Broadway shows.
A SHITE alternative.
Is that a long way of telling us you're a **** forklift driver 😂
He actually said one of the reasons it failed was that “there wasn’t enough shows”!
They couldn’t sell the tickets for the existing shows, but Coveney said they needed more!
Now going over the venue choice for the musical...which was a bonkers choice.
I don't think I have ever heard of a theatre production being put on there?!? (Convention centre)
This lad is barking up the wrong tree
Not in RTÉ it’s not!
And certainly not if your brother is a Cabinet Minister!
The Doherty wan with her millions. So what, 6x3 will do us all.
I see well known Broadway and West End impresario, the lad of the Coveneys, shrugs the shoulders and says "the audience wasn't there".
Would they not ask what sort of research he did in seeing if a Christmas time audience was there for a brand new musical. With everything else going on in the run up to Christmas.
The lack of relevant follow up questions is very infuriating.
Troll.
Heavy and loud sighing , moving around , putting his head in his hands...
Columbo
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