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Dylan Smith4 said: "This is sad. The show was incredible! Makes me wonder if the plans of possibly transferring it to New York are still happening."

I unfortunately think the Broadway transfer is DOA.  The show only lasted for 6 months on the West End and they had to move the originally planned closing date from mid-Jan to 12/30 just shows how badly it was selling.  

According to posters on Theatreboard the show is not selling tickets past 12/30.  It's a shame because I had a great time when I saw it this past summer.  

9 to 5 is doing pretty good on the West End right now. 

two random questions,

1.) When did the show start doing short contracts for the leads?  Besides AFW and R. Lowe, the leads usually leave after 3-4 months.  

2.) When did the show start stunt casting?  I think it started around the same time the movie came out, but I can be wrong.   The show still stunt cast, but it doesn't' seem as much as they did about 10 years ago.

i can hear the knives being sharpened across the ocean here in London. The critics are going to catty with this one. I’ll like to see what they’ll say about Alex Brightman’s performance.

She will probably be bought out of her contract. This production is going to be tarnished by this scandal and I have no idea if it will able to recover. Plus, the actress might be blacklisted for a while from the West End.

I know I'm 100% wrong here but, the middle right photo of Susan Boyle could be the X-Factor musical that flopped in the West End a few years back.

Once again, I know I'm wrong but that is what it reminded me of.

I don’t want to be a Debbie down but I don’t think Bernadette can support a 16 week run on the West End. She isn’t that big of a name over there so they might try to get a big British name for Horace.

I thought Bette and Scott were doing this production as a passion project more than anything else.   It was always going to be hard to make money in this production.

The rumors about it happening at the Palladium are dead, Joseph is playing there over the summer so it will be at the Dominion if it happens.

 

I think Rubin will probably built a new set.  the Dominion has a wide stage, almost 40 feet!  So, most of the set pieces need to be elongated.

Bette will only still do six shows,  my dream is Donna Murphy is talked into spending a summer in London but, it won't happen.  The name being floated around is Jane McDonald and some even think Elaine Paige will be the alternate. 

  

The Rumors are starting to heat back up again.  16 week run (possibility of 20, depends on how Bette feels) at the Dominion over the summer.   No word on casting but, I think David Hyde Pierce is part of the package.  Rudin will probably try to talk Gavin Creel and Charlie Stemp into doing the run.  

I'm excited!!!

I wonder if they are going to go meta during "For Now" now.

This show is only for now! 

They've sunk to the level of Chicago.  I guess the show was having a hard time filling up the house this winter.  I wounder why  the producers announced a April closing instead of a January one. 

I thought I was share this tidbit of Irony.

The actor who plays Billy Lawlor, Ashley Day, was so ill he couldn't perform for the recording so, his understudy, Phillip Bertioli, went on instead for the recording.   I feel bad for Ashley because it he missed a chance to have his performance be preserved but, what an opportunity for Phillip.  

Talk about actual 42nd Street in 42nd Street,

 

Hello Everybody,

I just recently found out that the 2016 revival of Falsettos has a strong teenage "stan" following.  I was wondering because they thought the show is on the same level as Mean Girls or Dear Evan Hansen or was because they loved Andrew Rannells, Christian Borle and, the rest of the cast.  Based on the limited fan post I've seen is talking about how great the actors are at being gay, jerks, neurotic and not on how great the show is.  

So for the cast that doesn't stage door to they just wait it out for all the fans to leave or, do they take the backdoor out.  I'm pretty sure the super fans would have already figured out where the backdoor is by now so, the cast probably has to sneak out now.

No, the show is the UK tour production and, it has been rumored that the show is acting as a filler until Mean Girls is ready to transfer to London.

Michael Wartella has rejoined the show as Boq in the tour.