But today savvy marketers must find subtler ways to appeal to a still-distinct but more assimilated Hispanic audience.These difficulties are nothing new.
Any new Godard movie is a noteworthy occasion, and this initial screening was packed with an audience primed for difficulties of some kind.
The play, a little-seen slice of the Scottish canon, is performed in strong Glaswegian dialect — "Ye can ask but that disnae mean ye'll be tellt" — which means audiences may have difficulty sitting out a nearly three-hour production.
Punch and Judy on the English beaches and Guignol in the parks of Paris still draw a crowd, but the indoor theatres that once attracted humble audiences survive with difficulty, usually with the aid of a sympathetic town council or a local museum.
And yet the illusion was never quite convincing: behind the assertive, aristocratic bearing of "Joan Crawford" audiences had no difficulty discerning Lucille LeSueur, the anxious, highly self-conscious working-class girl born to a single mother (her father left before she was born) in San Antonio.
Originally, the Reliant was supposed to be a Constitution-class starship identical to the Enterprise, but it was felt audiences would have difficulty distinguishing between the two ships.
Tecmo specifically targeted Ninja Gaiden at a non-Japanese audience, and despite difficulties in obtaining content ratings due to the game's graphic depictions of violence, it was generally well received, and 362,441 copies were sold in North America in the first month after its release.
At times this summer – not least at Gadd's tear-stained curtain call, when he addressed audiences frankly about his difficulties in bringing this story to the stage – it felt as if we were witnessing the Oprahfication of comedy.
All three shows got mixed reviews and had difficulty finding audiences.
Her voice fills the Roundhouse, soothing our troubles and transporting the audience away from the difficulties we face each day.
"The dirty little secret is that the independent sector is a very difficult place; independent movies have great difficulty finding audiences, and the majority of them don't get released," said Colin Callender, president of HBO Films.
