RTÉ presenter Ryan Tubridy and Noel Kelly to appear before PAC on Tuesday
That producer insight comes following an increasing focus on the RTÉ production in recent weeks.
“Toy Show the Musical is a celebration of the magical and joyful tradition unique only to Irish people on that one special evening at the end of November,” a press release accompanying the doomed production promised last year. At the time he revealed he had spent €50,000 advertising his panto on RTÉ, while Toy Show the Musical had benefited from free cross-platform promotion on the broadcaster. If nobody was entirely listening back then, they are now.Independent producer and panto star Alan Hughes has told of how the launch of Toy Show the Musical was a “major blow” to his production of Snow White at the National Stadium last Christmas.
“Last year was our first year to actually try and get back something onto a scale that we could get audiences back in to just try and fill theatres again and then RTÉ comes up with this brainwave of putting on their Toy Show The Musical in complete competition. Mr Hughes also put in a request to then director general of RTÉ Dee Forbes questioning the timing and placement of Toy Show musical adverts in the same slot as the adverts for his pantomime he had paid for.
Mr Hughes further queried the cost of renting the Convention Centre. “That’s an expensive venue to hire,” he said, adding most producers would not pay that cost.
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