How To Get Audiences To Sing Along: Booze On Demand

“Producers of the Broadway jukebox musical ‘Rock of Ages’ will offer an unusual perk starting tonight to attract audiences and loosen them up in a bad economy: in-seat alcohol service during performances. ‘Sometimes theater is perceived as something antiseptic,’ said Carl Levin, a former Morgan Stanley investment banker and a lead producer of the off-Broadway transfer. ‘We find when you have drinking, people are more likely to sing along.'”