What the heck is wrong with people--they'd rather sit through dreck like 'Bombay Dreams' than beautiful, brillant Sondheim (which he isn't always, but he certainly was when he wrote Assassins.)
Your headline is deceiving. ASSASSINS MAY CLOSE EARLY. It's just a threat. Entirely possible, but still not a closing notice yet. A threat to try to drive up the advance.
Um...so If I have tickets for the 24th...how does this work? And if they extend again will I be able to keep them? Argh! This is why I'm going to New York.
Oh NOW they're releasing the good seats they always had. NOW I don't have to sit in shin-bleeding seats for a not very good discount. My leg is still bruised a week later...I thought I'd sat in every section at Studio 54-- apparently not!! I've seen this show twice within a space of a couple weeks, and I'm not a big Sondheim fan...however, I absolutely love this. I was looking forward to it being my summer show and ushering/doing student discount...damn.
But you know, this IS Roundabout, and they'll do ANYTHING to get money. Too bad I was willing to shell out for an expensive seat last week. I can't afford it now!
I'm confused. Paid attendance for the week that ended June 20th was at 94.5%. For the week of the 13th, 95.7%. For the week of the 6th (prior to the Tonys), 93.4%. And the average ticket price has increased every week (as the discounts have expired). Shows doing numbers like that simply don't close early. EVER. Heck, Wonderful Town is still going and hasn't cracked 60% in months.
Could this be a pre-emptive move on their part in anticipation of a strike -- I believe they were about to shift over from the LORT contract to the production contract that's at issue in the strike. Or perhaps a ploy to get some advantage in their contract negotiations with the actors? Or an attempt to goose up the box office? Or perhaps, Broadway.com just screwed up again.
I don't get it.
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Playbill says the 18th as well...though this seems like madness...How can you possibly complain about the lack of an advance when untill last week you have advance tickets blocked off to everyone but American Express Gold members? Tickets after the 18th have only been available recently...This is extremely odd.
Yes... well I passed along a message from an actor in our current show that went like this:
"Can you tell [director] that I can't meet him for lunch? I'm taking [fellow actor] to her doctor appointment"
Next thing, the person who was to deliver the message had called the director of marketing and told him that one of he actors was on the way to the hospital, who called the stage manager who heard that the actor was in the hospital... People came in, the theatre was prepping for a cancellation.
At half-hour, there were about 10 people waiting with baited breath at the stage door when the actors showed up.
** Sometimes a story just needs a little push and it's off to the races. Just look at all of this free marketing!
To me the situation that I shared is similar because one statement, in this case from Mr. Haimes, can set off a whole lot of alarms. Sometimes intentional (like Haimes), sometimes unintentional (like my story).
Haimes statment definitively says "might". Yet these trusted sources are reporting "will"... it's a bump, a shot of publicity that may have gotten out of hand... A "Gypsy" maneuver.
It's apparently the advanced sales that are way down, not the current ones, though I would agree it's a bit odd to think that the drop would be *that* much since it's been selling so well the past few weeks.
Anyway, my guess is that they're hoping the possibility of closure will boost those sales back up and they'll "extend." We shall see!
You mean similiar to the Macy's 1-day sale concept? HAHA
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If it's true, it's a damn shame. The show is brilliant.
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