Chapter 1087 (1/2)
New York, Metropolitan Opera House.
This is the last song and dance performance of the book of songs by Guofeng art group on Saturday, January 11. Simon came to the west coast to visit pregnant women as usual at the weekend. By the way, he accompanied grace tonight. Simon nodded: ”I heard that, too.”
Since its premiere on December 7 last year, Guofeng art troupe has held nine performances every Wednesday and Saturday. Because of the quality of the performance itself and the news hype surrounding the event, the popularity is getting higher and higher. As a result, the tickets for each performance are hard to get. As a result, it is cheaper for scalpers.
According to preliminary statistics, the total ticket revenue of nine performances in the Metropolitan Opera House is only 5.3 million US dollars, while the scalpers outside the stadium have earned more than 1 million US dollars by issuing tickets at a premium, which is also a hot news topic in the near future. In turn, the performances of Guofeng Art Troupe have attracted more attention.
In fact, scalpers are very common on Broadway.
In Simon's memory, Hamilton, a phenomenal musical premiered in 2015, was the most popular time. Scalpers, who profited from scalping tickets, collected $60 million a year from the show.
At most, Bryce only reads fashion magazines, but she doesn't care what the newspapers say. When she hears the words, she doesn't change her attitude: ”in this case, why don't you raise the price?”
Simon sipped his coffee.
Grace helps to explain: ”once the ticket price of Broadway drama is determined, it can't be changed casually. After all, a drama can't be popular for a long time. Once the price rise affects the attendance, it may cause a chain reaction. In addition, scalpers can also play a propaganda role in raising ticket prices to a certain extent, giving people the impression that the play is very popular. ”
Bryce felt that she had gained insight, and then she glanced at someone who had ignored her twice: ”grace has been more than three months, what are you going to do in the future?”
Simon finally replied, ”born, raised, inherited.”
Bryce's eyes widened slightly. ”That's it?”
”Are there any parents who are not like this?”
”I mean,” Bryce thought, ”you're responsible for grey, too.”
”Of course, except for marriage, I can't give it. Everything else is OK.”
”Will you admit the child in public?”
Simon said, ”if grey wants to make it public, make it public.”
Bryce immediately dissatisfied: ”you're shirking. Grey loves you so much. She's certainly thinking about you and won't make it public.”
”Well, when the baby is born, I'll put a front page in the New York Times.”
”I'll remember that. Don't try to cheat me then.”
Grace finally interrupted: ”stop it, Bryce. I don't want my children to be watched by the media all day in the future.”
”You're just trying to push him off. There's no way to save him,” she said
After supper, it was nearly ten o'clock. Simon wanted to take two women back to the Fifth Avenue apartment. Grace insisted on going home. After the woman became pregnant, she changed her residence again. It was located on the 11th floor of a 15 story apartment building near Park Avenue on 66th street, mainly for privacy reasons.
Each other in the underground parking lot of the building, watching two women with a pair of female guards into the elevator, Simon told the driver to leave.
In the elevator.
Although there were two people standing by, Bryce couldn't help saying, ”why don't you go to his place for the night?”
Grace stroked her belly through her windbreaker and said, ”you've been pregnant, too. You know women don't look good when they're pregnant. I don't want him to see it.”
Bryce rolled her eyes and said, ”I look good when I'm pregnant.”
Grace just smile: ”just let you leave with him, why don't you go?”
”I...” Bryce just looked at the two female guards behind her. She couldn't say that she couldn't stand someone's tossing. After a moment's pause, she casually said, ”I've decided to break up with him. I don't want to get pregnant suddenly.”
Grace didn't answer this time.
However, in my heart, I can be sure that my little man won't let his best friend get pregnant unless there is an accident. It's not because of morality, but because he cares about future generations. But Bryce is by no means a good choice for a mother. If she had not brought up her two children, Rita and ray, well, there would not have been a baby in her belly at this time.
On the other side, to bid farewell to grace and his wife, Simon told the driver to go to a block in midtown where Madison Avenue intersects 53rd Street.
Here is a 36 story high-end apartment building just completed last year.
The girls of Guofeng Art Troupe need accommodation when they come to Manhattan to perform. Coupled with the large number of surrounding service teams, Simon directly bought out the building which had not yet opened as a dormitory apartment. The 36 storey building, according to the house type, has a total of 150 real estate units. With more than 200 female bodyguards in total, Guofeng art troupe has more than enough room to live in.
In other words, this building is a daughter country at this time.When Simon arrives, all the male bodyguards around him stay outside. The security work is quietly taken over by a pair of female bodyguards directly under the Wei family. They take the elevator to the 32nd floor of the building, ring the doorbell and enter an apartment. Ms. Liu lives here with the little girl whose name was changed by Simon to MiuMiu Miu.
I didn't expect Simon to come. A waitress who opened the door was quite surprised. Then a group of women chatting in the living room stood up one after another.
Simon looked at the past, except for the mother and daughter, the others should be choreographers of Guofeng art group.
”Dad.”
A little girl ran over first, with a happy expression, but when she came near, she was afraid.
Simon picked up Miu Miu, went straight to the sofa, sat down, put the little girl on her lap, looked at five or six women around, and asked with a smile, ”what are you talking about so late?”
Simon uses standard Putonghua, but other people still don't respond. Westero will suddenly come in. Finally, Ms. Liu said, ”Simon, this is the last scene today. In the past two months, the performance of the art troupe has been very successful. Everyone can't sleep, so we'll come to celebrate together.”
”It's time to celebrate.”
Simon nodded and looked at the red wine and fruit salad on the tea table. ”It seems that I didn't show up at the right time. I'm disturbing you.”
Ms. Liu shook her head: ”of course not.”
Simon saw that the woman was a little flustered. He held the little girl in his arms and changed her posture. He said, ”this performance is really successful. You are going back to China for the new year. In this way, I'll ask Chen to come up with a reward scheme tomorrow. Everyone will have it.”
The women who still didn't dare to sit down all showed joy. Ms. Liu said, ”Simon, I'll thank you for you.”