What the hell is bway thinking?
What the hell is bway thinking?
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#0What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:37am
closing so many shows on one day?
i know this as been posted a lot but i am very UNHAPPY!
stupid eisner
NYBroadwayNY
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/04
#1re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:41amWas there a Disney show that closed????
#2re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:42amNot since September 5th....
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#3re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:43am*hands Emcee a kleenex as she runs away in tears*
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
NYBroadwayNY
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/04
#4re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:45am
Yeah, I know.
*trys to figure out why Eisner is being blamed for recent closings*
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#5re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:46am
no, i just don't know who to blame...
i mean, if he was given the credit of "saving" bway, then i am gonna blame him for ruining today/tomorrow - w/e
i will be seing wicked sadly
#6re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:46am
Thanks Tiff.
*cries* Do you realize that January 4th will be a year for Cabaret, and the day directly following with be 4 months for AIDA? *cries more*
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#7re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:46amI think BSo is saying that the "Disneyfication" of Broadway is causing lesser known but better quality shows to close.
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#8re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:13am
aaaww don't worry BSoBW2, another one will surely open.
:: hands BSoBW2 a Kleenex ::
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#9re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:23am
You know what is annoying me? I love seeing closing nights, they're usually special. But how the hell can I attend all these closing nights this weekend, not even considering all the cast changes? I'm not a happy bunny.
It's all about organisation, right? Broadway, get your act together!!! 
QM
'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
brandonm
Featured Actor Joined: 5/26/04
#10re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 9:33am
what shows are closing?
"Let the little girl go, and that poor little dog? Dodo." That's my favorite line in the whole show (Wicked). My next favorite line is "Oh! It seems the artichoke is steamed."
#12re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 10:12am
Jan 1st: Bombay Dreams
Jan. 2: 42nd Street
Dracula
Golda
Symphonie Fantastique - Off-Broadway
Jan 3rd: Laugh Whore
Bug - Off-Broadway
Jan 9th: 'night Mother
Jan 16th: The Foreigner - Off-Broadway
Jan 30th: Pacific Overtures
Wonderful Town
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
Updated On: 1/2/05 at 10:12 AM
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 10:15amThere are those who think it is a good thing - out with the old & in with the new. Bottom line is short term you have empty theaters . Long term you may have the same thing if critics continue to rip shows and/or audiences stay away
Poster Emeritus
#14re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 10:20am
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Damn, I didn't know Pacific Overtures had posted a closing notice...
Sure, it's a limited engagement, but it only just opened...
#15re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 10:24amUnless they decide to extend it, "Pacific Overtures" had always been scheduled to close on January 30th..
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
NightLaughs
Leading Actor Joined: 6/26/04
#16re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 11:32am
Did Pacific Overtures have a limited engagement or something?
(There goes three shows I wanted to see... 
)
If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."- Robert Fritz
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#17re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 11:44amEVERY show at Roundabout is a limited engagement. They are a subscription-based non-profit theatre. CABARET was a fluke.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#18re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 11:52amThere's a simple reason why a bunch of shows are closing right now- the tourist-rich Christmas/New Year's holiday has ended, and the dead time of winter is about to begin. If you're going to close, now's the time. Attendance is going to be awful for the next couple of months.
Kris2
Featured Actor Joined: 9/30/04
#19re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:15pmWait, what? I thought Bug was closing on January 30th and not January 3rd???
#20re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:23pmWait, does someone have a link to Pacific Overtures closing? I was just talking to someone today about it. It is one of her favorite shows and she thought it was running until April.
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
Kris2
Featured Actor Joined: 9/30/04
#21re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:26pm
Doubt is also closing Off-Broadway on January 30th, though it is moving to Broadway sometime in the spring.
Pacific Overtures
#22re: What the hell is bway thinking?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:32pmRight. All of the Roundabout stuff starts out as a limited engagement. Many of them do get extension's, but Cabaret was an anomaly. Seven years.
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