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If I remember correctly, Wicked in Chicago was a strange situation, with the first national tour booked for a very limited run (which may have been due to several previous big touring shows under performing, especially Sunset Boulevard)--when the  show sold amazingly well, the run was turned into a sit down production. The original tour cast went on with scheduled tour and new Chicago based cast was hired to take over the show. Not 100% sure--but I think the set stayed in Chicago and a n

Phantom had a sit down production in Los Angeles. After it closed, the physical production moved to San Francisco for an even longer run. I believe each of these productions were produced under the old production contract with Los Angeles and then San Francisco being the home city. As I remember, the Equity production contract used to allow a production to choose one of four home/base cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Having a production based in one of these cities al

BETTY22 said: "Can the authors stop these tours?"

 

For newer shows, probably only if they made it a requirement of their agreement with the original producers--who usually license the show to another company who specialized in these tours. (I can't image many authors who would risk loosing a Broadway production over this.) 

For older shows that the original producers no longer control, The discission to allow a production or not usually f

Not really a new thing. William Goldman in the book The Season describes how Peter Masterson playing the title character in "The Trail of Lee Harvey Oswald" in 1967 was on stage, silent for 2 hours from house open, through the first act, intermission, most of the second act before having his first (and I assume only) line--a 20 minute monologue. As Goldman writes "Masterson was seated on stage as the audience entered, which was someone's literary notion . . . It sounded log

Certainly the Lord of the Rings musical in Toronto (2006) and London (2007) has to be one one of the most complicated with a 42' revolve with16 hydraulic scissor lifts and a center lift. The staging and tech of the battle scenes must have taken forever.

My personal favorite is the Shaw Festival 1995 production of Noel Coward's Cavalcade, especially the final moment with the cast of 46 in a revolving montage of 30 years of history.

As for current productions, Awak

I believe there were 3 occasions when the current cast of a Broadway show were the musical guest on Saturday Night Live:

1) Most recently David Byrne and the cast of American Utopia were the musical guest. David also appeared in the Airport Sushi sketch.

2) Jennifer Holiday was the musical guest at the height of Dreamgirls popularity. She sang the songs in a concert setting not recreating the staging of show.

3) Most of the cast of the revival of Pirates of Pe

While I can't comment on the physical production as I haven't seen it. But it is interesting that the tour is starting at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville Arkansas who's subscribers just got the national tour of My Fair Lady with the Moulin Rouge tour playing in February. Those audiences are bound to notice a difference in quality of the physical production (though to be fair the theatre's top ticket for Moulin Rouge is twice as much as Legally Blonde). I would actually

Also important to note that there are two distinct tourist groups. While the vast majority are regular tourists, there is a smaller sub-set of theatre specific tourists who make one or more trips each year to New York to see the latest shows (and occasionally revisit old favorites). There are now probably fewer of these theatre tourists in town at this time (due to most of the limited run productions having closed, though (I am sure) those who missed Into the Woods at City Center may be doing