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EDSOSLO858 said: "Back to the Future is our next Lion King, like it or not."

Not with those grosses it isn't. BttF has been struggling to elevate to bonafide hit status since it opened. It is probably barely breaking even most weeks and has only played to sold out houses 3 weeks since it opened.

The Winter Garden has too much potential profit for the Shuberts to let an underperforming show stay there long term. They

I love a good Season Guessing Game!

TV - Hairspray makes the most sense.. the tour played to a sold out week at the Paramount last year, so bringing it back as the 5th's summer show makes sense, especially if the tour starts to wind down and it closes here, since the original production did its Pre-Broadway tryout at the 5th in 2002, though I'd love to see them self produce a production when the rights are available. (Other possibilities: How to Succeed..., Bye Bye Bi

While never a mega-hit,Urinetown saw a major uptick in business thanks to Tony attention that helped it run 2.5 years and outrun 2002 Best Musical winner, Thoroughly Modern Millie by 55 total performances (990 for Urinetown, 935 for Millie).

-WE 5/5/02 - $214,734 - 62.28%

Tony Nominations Monday 5/6/2002, receives 10 Nominations

-WE 5/12/02 - 267,587 - 82.33% 

Tony Awards Sunday 6/2/2002, wins 3 Tony Awards: Best Book, Score and Direction

-WE 6/9/02 - 3

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "YvanEhtNioj said: "What else is in the pipeline and needs a theater (for musicals)?

The Susan Stroman trio: LITTLE DANCER, NEW YORK/NEW YORK, CRAZY FOR YOU
 

Has Little Dancer (re-)re-branded from Marie: Dancing Still back to Little Dancer? 

The Broadhurst is a good size for A Beautiful Noise... though I wish the Broadhurst would get a Schoenfeld style makeover/renovation at some point..

Instead of a permanent renovation/restructure, I'd prefer something like they did at the Gershwin years ago (and which Wicked has managed to manipulate with great success)..

With all 3 Mezz walls in at the Gershwin the capacity for Wicked was 1773. When the Wicked producers removed the center section wall permanently, in August 2004, the Gershwin capacity bumped up to 1809. Then by January 2014 the total capacity for a single week topped out at 1926 (there were a few weeks at 

"When the email was made public, Roth confirmed his words and officially stepped down from his involvement in Beauty and the Beast. "Upon consideration of recent events, it is clear that I am not in a position to lead this production at this time. I see now that the sentiments included in a private email that went public were thoughtless and insensitive, and I am profoundly sorry that my comments have caused unintended pain," he told The Stage."

This is right up the

Unfortunately the opportunity for the Times Square Theatre to reopen as a legit Broadway house ended in 1997/1998 when Livent built the Ford Center. Instead of also renovating the Times Square and creating a way for the Times Square to be loaded in from 43rd Street, they only focused on the Apollo and Lyric to create their new space leaving the Times Square landlocked with access only from 42nd St.  

NYC has an ordinance that 42nd Street can not be shut down in

Wasn't there also a rumor that the Sweet Charity revival would move to the Lyric/Hilton/Foxwoods/Ford Center with Britney Spears?

I'd also have loved to see Gloria Estefan replace Vanessa Williams in the 2002 Into the Woods revival (Billy Porter was also rumored, tho I'd rather have seen Estefan).

Not rumored, but I'd have LOVED to see Vanessa Williams as Queenie in the LaChiusa Wild Party. She was pregnant and unable to do the Broadway run so it went to Toni Col

CATSNYrevival said: "Because they get kicked out by The Music Man."

...or Rocky..

The timing of the Mamma Mia to the Broadhurst announcement (4/18/13) and Rocky's opening at the Winter Garden announcement (4/19/13) would indicate to me that the Shuberts were looking to make a deal with Judy Craymer to clear out the Winter Garden for the big, shiny new show from Europe... just maybe not so conspicuously since Mamma Mia had dipped to playing t

Also, yesterday while this story was starting to unfold in this thread.. there were (at least) 2 RR videos in the 'Hot Stories' column, now there are none. There is actually no mention of RR anywhere on the main BWW screen that loads (on my comp, at least). So it does seem someone here at BWW has responded by removing the front page clickable video links.. but there is still not an article speaking to the twitter posts in debate on here either... and you can still find the videos if y

This might be a nice way for the Shuberts to begin naming the New World Stages theatres.. Just because they haven't so far doesn't mean they can't or won't.. plus they can still refer to each theatre by number officially but have the theatre entrance display the person it is named after outside the entry doors to the seating areas. It seems like an easy yet significant way to honor some of the contributors to the American musical theatre landscape who wouldn't otherwi

A quick Google Search shows Cameron Mackintosh with a net worth of $1.1 BILLION. Is he really so hard up to save a few dollars that he needs to erase any existence of the brilliant Original staging? I mean.. let's be real, even if he saves as much as $1M per year in royalty payments...(which seems high).. would that even make a dent in his fortune...?

The original Phantom production is a cultural icon. Seeing the 'reimagined' US tour last year reminded me how spec

In 2002, for the revival of Oklahoma!, the Gershwin was reduced from 1933 seats to 1670, partly due to a wall being built behind row J of the Rear Mezz (other seats were lost in the front of the Orchestra due to the Oklahoma thrust stage).

When Wicked first opened the Gershwin Capacity was 1773. During the first year of Wicked's run, (beginning with Week Ending August 8, 2004) the center wall was removed and the center section of the Rear Mezz (Rows K, L, M) was added bac

When I saw Hamilton Chicago in the summer of 2017 she was out. Don't know the track record she had on that, but its a guarantee that no matter what show she is in, no matter when I go to see it, I will see Karen Olivo's Understudy..

In The Heights - U/S (Krista Rodriguez was AMAZING)

West Side Story - U/S (Natalie Cortez was AMAZING)

Hamilton (Chi) - U/S (whichever U/S on was AMAZING)

The only time I have seen her live was Brooklyn.. before the current