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Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
#125re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 5:59pmJohn and Gina are locks in their respective categories.
#126re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:01pm
Neo, their grosses might be fine, but if their advance is absolutely abysmal, the producers might figure it's better to close than to waste more money by running the show for a few more weeks where it won't meet the weekly cost.
Updated On: 12/3/09 at 06:01 PM
MusicSnob1
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/09
#127re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:06pm
Thanks for explaining how it logically works, bjh.
Neo - time to take you to school, kid...
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#128re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:08pm
"This show ain't Wicked, this show ain't Lion King. "
Hell, this show lost the Tony to Lion King.
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#129re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:12pmMy inside sources say that no closing notice has been posted. So that makes the people saying it has -that makes them..what is that word again? Liars? Mistaken? Dissemblers? S**t stirrers?
#130re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:16pmNo one said there was a closing notice being posted yet.
"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"
MusicSnob1
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/09
#131re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:17pm
I'm tired of your "inside sources"
My inside sources say that your inside sources are dirty smelly liars! Hmph!
When I think about you, I touch myself.
#132re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:18pm^ Agreed. Those with real inside sources don't brag about having insider sources.
#133re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:21pm
"Twitter is going crazy with reports about the cast being informed today about the closing"
Yep the site's down right now because everyone from Arianna Huffington to John McCain is twittering about the closing of Ragtime.
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#134re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 7:03pm
Sorry-I'm sick today and clearly not thinking straight.
Obviously Night Music will be one of the 4. Early to assume but Finian's, Night Music, La Cage and Ragtime sound like they would be the 4 nominees.
whatever2
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#135re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/3/09 at 9:20pmhardly conclusive evidence, but Ragtime now has five nights next week posted on tdf ... a pretty clear break from its prior strategy. (which, as noted, has only included tdf twice before, on holiday-ish nights where butts generally are not in broadway theater seats.)
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#138re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/4/09 at 9:47am
the reason I post it as inside info is not to brag - it is so people KNOW it is reliable...the proof that my info was correct is evident.
Let's see...twitter supposedly saying a closing notice had been posted. Another chatboard was cited here claiming a closing notice had been posted. My info said it was not true...and today still no word of a closing notice...mmmm...interesting.
#139re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:08pm
I don't think it was about a *closing notice* in terms of a specific date the show is closing; rather the reports were the cast were told they show is closing but they weren't given dates or anything...kind of like, it will be 'closing soon' kind-of-thing.
Do you claim this is also wrong?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#140re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/4/09 at 6:06pm
actually on ATC the claim was the a closing in 2 weeks WAS POSTED. That claim was made in this thread in posts that have since been deleted. It was false. The cast were NOT told that they are closing. That is false.
but the cast and anyone else would have to be brain dead to not realize that without an increase in business in the near future this all will come to be true.
Meanwhile Valisia Lekae rocked it last night as Sarah in place of Wally Pipp (um,I mean Stephanie Umoh) and she goes on again tonight..You go girl!
TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
#142re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/5/09 at 1:28amIn the event that it IS closing...not to celebrate actors losing work or to rush it out, because I really enjoyed Ragtime. But does anyone have more of a concrete thought or source of whats replacing it before Phantom 2...1st wives,Carrie(lol), Fences,ect...I did some searching and couldn't quite find a thread devoted to it.
#143re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/5/09 at 1:31amFENCES was/is legitimately looking at the theater.
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#144re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/5/09 at 3:55amIs the rumor that AMERICAN IDIOT is going into the Henry Miller?
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#145re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:59amNo. American Idiot is waiting for a Jujamcyn house.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#146re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:16pmThe only Jujacyn Theatre I could only see American Idio playing in is the Eugene O'Neill. The only other theater that might open up is the St. James, but I feel that theater would be too big for the show.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#147re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:18pmThe O'Neill it will be.
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#148re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:30pmThat's what I thought too. But I hear that they want the St. James.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#149re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?
Posted: 12/5/09 at 8:20pm
RAGTIME IS NOT CLOSING!!!!
GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT!
CAST AND CREW KNOW BETTER THAN SOME TWIT ON TWITTER!!!
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