From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On Broadway
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On Broadway
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From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On Broadway#2
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:30amIsn't it rich?
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On Broadway#2
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:30amI think it will close by Labor Day.
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:37am
Phyllis is just bitter because she can't afford a ticket from Tijuana to come to NYC to see the production...
But seriously, if they join, it would surely be a limited engagement - maybe three months and I think it would do just fine at the box office in a 900 seat theatre with those two attached.
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On Broadway#4
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:39amHoly crap. I'd be the in an instant!
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#5
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:40am
Why would they announce this when contracts have not been signed? They MAY be taking over? If it's not a done deal why announce it?
If it's true... I am there!!
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#6
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:42amwell its not announced - that article is reporting the gossip.
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#7
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:42am
They'd still be in this steaming turd of a production.
Can't we just get Bartlett Sher to direct it for Lincoln Center, with a full orchestra and real sets, and real actors who play the roles as written, instead of this Nunn-sensical revival?
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#8
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:48am
Whenever I think of Night Music, I think of Ouiser Boudreaux, albeit slightly paraphrased - I do not see Night Music because I can nap at home for free.
Plus, I had to leave Tijuana after I was named patient zero in that scabies outbreak. 
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#9
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:50am
this sounds magnificent
they'd have to make several casting adjustments to fit the elaine and bp, no?
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:50am
I agree that it would be a limited engagement. I would guess something like 3-5 months, probably long enough for the production to recoup its investment and make a small profit.
The box office numbers will certainly dip, but I think that in a 900 seat house, with a discount, Peters and Stritch would sell enough tickets to keep the show profitable.
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From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#11
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:53am
It amuses me when 'news' stories are touted as major exclusives and are just repeats of message board gossip w/ no actual sourcing.
I can't imagine it being able to extend for long or that the definite box-office drop would be a good thing for Bernadette's career, especially if CZJ wins the Tony.
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#12
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:53am
Can't we just get Bartlett Sher to direct it for Lincoln Center, with a full orchestra and real sets, and real actors who play the roles as written, instead of this Nunn-sensical revival?
Hear, hear!
~Steven
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#13
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:58am
I've been saying Stritch should do it for months!
If it does happen, I bet tickets only go on sale through the original date of August 29. If it sells fine, I'm sure they would open a new block.
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#14
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:59amImagine her wooden ring speak, as delivered by Joanne from Company!
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:00pm<3 The cute has to really act. I hope she still has it in her.
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:05pm
Come now. Has she played anything but a variation on the same theme for the past 40 years?
Perhaps she'll do "Liaisons" like she did "Broadway Baby," all dry-drunky and ironic!
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From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#17
Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:08pmI'm there in a heartbeat.
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:19pmI've been a fan of Bernadette's since she played the stepmother in Rogers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" and when she voiced Sophie in "Anastasia" and Rita on "Animaniacs." I'd love for her to return to Broadway.
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:26pmI'll be shocked if there is an official annoumcement today. It's a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend. This is when they dump news that they want no one to pay attention to. It's called "the Friday news dump." If they want to get maximum press from this, they'll wait until Tuesday.
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:37pm
You've seen too many episodes of West Wing 
If Stritch can be 1/8 as good as she was in the extraordinary A DELICATE BALANCE, it will be a masterful performance.
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:39pmObviously, it wouldn't be her song in the show, but this is just reminding me of how completely transfixed I was during Stritch's reading of "Everyday a Little Death" at the Carlyle.
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:52pmIf this cast change happens, I hope they release a discount, and maybe change their student rush to actual seats. Updated On: 5/28/10 at 12:52 PM
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#23
Posted: 5/28/10 at 1:26pmDidn't Elaine Stritch already say at an event that she turned them down?
Wanting life but never knowing how
From Playbill: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch May Make Night Music On#24
Posted: 5/28/10 at 1:29pm
She apparently said she "wouldn't want to make her return to Broadway in a wheelchair."
But Stritch is Stritch. Everything she says needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
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