I don't know a whole lot about the business of show booking, and I'm not really even trying to make any point (because I would love for Mormon to play the PAC and do well). I will point out, though, that Rock, Spamalot, Ave Q, the Blue Men, and I think Mamma are all non-eq tours, which means that their overhead is significantly lower than the higher profile tours. Now, Book of Mormon could go non-eq (so many shows have), but I really doubt that it would for at least a few years until the rights get taken over by a new production company.

I'm not saying that the ACA is doing a bad job of getting shows up there; rather, they do remarkably well given the circumstances. The fact is, though, that it is just too hard to turn a profit even in ideal circumstances, and the top tier of equity tours can't make it fiscally viable to make a detour up to AK. This means that first nationals and big new eq tours just won't make it up there, and Alaskans are left to wait until the tour goes non-eq or until there is some other special consideration that brings the production up.