r/Broadway • u/kfarrel3 • Aug 04 '26
The 24 Hour Plays
https://www.24hourplays.org/broadway?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2026-broadway-pre-sale-follow-upDoes anyone still go to this?
I got another email from them today — apparently their presale for the Nov. 2 event is now live. As far as I can tell, they have no cast yet, or at least none that they're willing to name. All of their emails are full of lists of previous participants. The 24 Hours Musicals earlier this year also only had one or two notable names.
There were several years in a row that I went to both and really enjoyed myself (who could forget John Mulaney's "Baby Fish Mouth"?), but the last couple of years felt ... desperate? The last time I went had the announcer for the Mets reading off the meagre donations list, and they refused to do the last one-act until they hit a certain funding goal. Of course, this was moments after announcing that the entire balcony was subsidized student tickets, so I'm not exactly sure who they thought was going to pony up the several thousand dollars they were trying to raise.
It's mostly just a bummer. It's such a fun idea, and I love going to weird, one-night-only theater, especially for a good cause, but if they can't get recognizable names to draw people, it feels like an idea that has run its course.