Tupac Shakur Musical ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Flops on Broadway

Variety ^ | 7/14/14 | Gordon Cox

[SoFloFreeper]

Broadway’s Tupac Shakur musical “Holler if Ya Hear Me” won’t be heard after July 20, when the sales-challenged new show will close following several weeks of dire box office.

[SoFloFreeper]

Racist Broadway customers!!!!!

[demshateGod]

Maybe because Tupac’s lyrics were mostly about killing white people.

[demshateGod]

Maybe because Tupac’s lyrics were mostly about killing white people.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

That and glorified monotone karaoke never makes good listening.

[BilLies]

If you can’t make it in New York, you can not make it anywhere.

[immadashell]

If these lib producers and writers had any clue about what would make a big selling hit show they would do a country music show about mid-America. None of their friends would go but the theaters would be packed.

[BilLies]

Try Detroit or Washington DC’s White House.

[Mount Athos]

I think his influence was underestimated.
He really set this country back by glamorizing the “thug life”.

[P.O.E.]

X#%&x that ^*%@!)@

On Broadway.

[IronJack]

Apparently no one is hollering. Cuz Deadpac still dayed.

[VanDeKoik]

They needed more hologram Tupac.

[skinkinthegrass]

BUMP!💵 or BANG! 💣 and it still didn't make the 🔪

[LS]

I’m sorry, but after his unfortunate, er, accident shouldn’t he be “One-pac?”

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Broadway cater to a certain demographic?

Not all cultures appreciate theater. I’m guessing a concerto featuring Rachmaninoff or Tchaikovsky wouldn’t favor so well in the hood either?

[RegulatorCountry]

How a middling rapper from the nineties ever became the black Elivs is a mystery to me. Well, other than music and being dead.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

“rap” ain’t music.

[kearnyirish2]

He is related to some black cop-killing revolutionary (Chesimard); she is his aunt.

In reading about the Civil War draft riots, one theme that stands out is how whites feared blacks would replace them in the job market. Tupac and other black role models have ensured that this will never happen (even when white people want to give blacks an opportunity).

[Stosh]

Finally an opportunity for the premier of “Saucy Jack” (can’t be any worse).