A few years ago, one of my friends put together a musical. They and the team they assembled worked extremely hard and were rewarded for their efforts with a sell out premiere that the local press raved about. They've done another 3 shows since then, the last a couple of years ago.
It's not an easy show to put on, think huge one-off concert type planning. This is because some of the musicians have their own commitments away from the musical, other roles are filled by students who have since gone on to do other things. For their own part, my friend has been working on their own album for a couple of years (professional musician), so no further dates were organised also, there wasn't really anywhere else they felt they could go following 4 sell out shows each with rave reviews.
For my part, I travelled to each of the shows to lend my support. It wasn't expected of me because I live in a different country and each show was a minimum 7 hour drive each way in good traffic. I still made the commitment and it was appreciated by my friend and the team who I came to know better and came to call friends.
On Friday, a radio station in their country played a recording of the musical which had been done at the third show. Unfortunately, the quality of the recording had degraded and, so the station decided to repeat the recording on Sunday night using the audio from the DVD of the show. For their part, my friend kindly uploaded to social media a video of 2 of the tracks from the musical.
Straight away, a couple of people started commenting, asking when the musical would tour France. These people had the opportunity to go to any of the previous 4 shows, but had said they weren't interested. My friend explained that it's a difficult show to stage without going into the reasons. Immediately, they were jumped on by the same people who until now weren't interested, being asked why it would be difficult to stage the show in such and such a city, that if they took the show to this city on a Friday night, they would travel to see it.
It irks me that my friends are going to feel pressured to organise a tour of their show once life returns to some semblance of normality in their country by people who have previously called the show a "bag of shit."
I know they would love to be able to take the show to the capital city of their country, yet they were saying back in 2016 and 2 years ago that the logistics were an issue. For context, my friend has been involved in the organisation of large-scale concerts over the years. Their idea of difficult is what most people would call near impossible.
AIBU to sit on my hands and not explain to these people that when my friend says difficult, it really isn't them throwing their hands up and saying "oh it's a bit tough and I don't want to try", they are saying "it's actually near impossible to organise even a single date that everyone can do, never mind a tour."