Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
#0Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:37pm
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#1re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:39pm
WOW.
At least I got to see Applegate in it. I do feel bad for Charlotte though. This could have been her chance to really shine.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Updated On: 3/25/05 at 05:39 PM
Mamamia Sammy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/04
#2re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:40pmI blame this all on Corine2.
"I knew this was probably going to happen." - Rathnait62
#3re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:40pmI feel bad for all of the actors who are now out of work, but I can't say that I'm surprised.
#4re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:40pmHoly sh*t.
"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you."
- Maya Angelou
#5re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:40pmI consider myself lucky to have seen Charlotte in it.
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
grownupgroupie
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/04
#6re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:40pm
WHOA. I'm floored!
Poor sales in general, or poor sales b/c of Christina's foot? Or bad news in general w/ the company that we don't know about? And what will go in the Hirschfeld now?
Conspiracy theorists, fire away....
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#7re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:41pm
Wow, I was right...it really DIDN'T make it Broadway.
Now no one will get to see Xtina...I feel better now!
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#8re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:42pm
Whoa.
I'm really glad I saw the show in Chicago. That's really too bad, though, for everyone involved.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
eslgr8
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/04
#10re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:42pmWow is right. Well, I will be returning my ticket for a refund and finding another show to see my first evening in New York, June 21st. I just find this very interesting after all the denials, just today!
#11re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:43pm
Was the show bad? Poor sales? Her injury? Why cancel?
I'm afraid I'm not up-to-date on this production.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:43pmWow indeed. This is the stuff of Legend. I'm so glad I saved my playbill. I'm just sorry that I never got to see either of the "marquee" names. Who's going to write the book about this?
#13re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:43pmThis show wasn't exactly setting box office records when Christina was in the show. I can hardly imagine what they turned into when Charlotte joined.
#14re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:44pm
So sad for Christina. I know she wanted this.
Hopefully, she'll be in something, soon, and if she is, it will come to LA, as that will be my new residence coming July...
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#15re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:45pmThis is the worst news I've heard all day. Charlotte is a real trooper and should be commended for stepping in on such short notice. As I mentioned in an earlier thread, an amazing ensemble with some of the best dancers around! This is truly a crying shame.
"I'm learning to dig deep down inside and find the truth within myself and put that out. I think what we identify with in popular music more than anything else is when someone just shares a truth that we can relate to. That's what I'm searching for in my music." - Ron Bohmer
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#16re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:49pmI was actually looking forward to it, when Charlotte stepped up to the plate. More so, with the NYTimes' big article on her in today's Weekend section.
Benzy92
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#17re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:53pm
WHOAAAAAAAAAAA!
At least La Cage will get its Tony for Best Revival now..
I was really looking forward to seeing this though 
#18re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:54pmApparently the producers were already feeling the brunt of canceled group ticket sales, which made up a huge part of their 2M advance. It's a shame for everyone involved, but that's life in the theatre.
#19re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:58pmim really sad. i was planning on seeing this show. Chrisitna and Charlotte have worked so hard. this really is so horrible.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:59pmOMG- I'd already forgotten about that huge article in today's Times! I can't believe they didn't even give it time to see if it sold any tickets. And, I wanted to add, I am sorry for Charlotte! And poor Denis misses out on another Tony, too. What a mess this is!
#21re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 6:00pmso all of us that bought tickets how do we get a refund? I had tickets for June 10th grrrr this totally blows my NYC plans out of the water now 4 ppl have to agree on ANOTHER show to go see *sighs* Easier said than done
You're always sorry,
You're always grateful,
You hold her, thinking:
"I'm not alone."
You're still alone.
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company
Chote887
Stand-by Joined: 9/8/04
#22re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 6:02pm
Wow. That's a real shame.
I guess La Cage is set for a tony.
Tenorific2
Leading Actor Joined: 2/16/05
#23re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 6:02pm
I feel privileged at seeing the show in Minneapolis. I felt honored to have met Denis O'Hare. I enjoyed the music, the crazy costumes for the "Frug", and the choreography for the "Frug", but the show itself was not one that I walked out feeling jazzed about. So, my signed playbill by Mr. O'Hare, Ms. Applegate, and Mr. Sabella is a treasure. I wish everyone involved much success on their next endeavours.
#24re: Sweet Charity Cancels Broadway Engagement
Posted: 3/25/05 at 6:03pm
awwwwwwwwww
that's so sad. Think of all those actors out of work now. And it REALLY was charlotte's first chance since JRB (not jason robert brown!!!)
At least i got to see it...Wednesday Night! That is one playbill i am KEEPING! :)
awkward.
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