Dancer wrote:...... but it was a shame that the second cast Billys and Michaels in the end performed relatively few shows. They all must have incredible talent and the best of luck to all of them in the future.
Yes, to me that is the really sad part. The second cast of Billys got between 14 and 18 performances after an enormous amount of schooling and training (some of them were at the original BillyScool and were 'retained' for the second cast). The second cast of Michaels got a bit more as the first cast originally had only 5 Michaels and one of these (Tycho) left relatively early on so they started when the first cast of Billys were still playing. And the third cast of ballet girls (the girls plus small and tall boy did not fall under the special dispensation that Billy and Michael got to play 40 instead of 24 shows in a calendar year, so there was a need of a third cast) also did not get a lot of stage time.
But in the end, if you can't sell enough tickets, there is no option but to call it a day. The AFAS Circustheater has over 1800 seats, difficult to fill in what in the end is a provincial town (with apologies to people living in Den Haag) with not a lot of tourists. So you need to draw people from all over the country and that's not easy. (for comparison's sake, we all know that the VPT has just over 1500 seats and is in one of the worlds leading tourist / theater destinations).
You captured the mood really well. 
