Ave Q reduced??
Ave Q reduced??
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#0Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:26am
ok it was in the Post
but they said both Q and Spam
will be shorter in Vegas
Is there no integrity left at all?
"Money changes Everything"
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#1re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:27am
No, I really don't think it is the money...it is the city.
All shows plan to be shortened to 90 minutes, I believe.
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Updated On: 7/26/05 at 12:27 AM
#2re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:30amThat's INSANE...what a task for the creators!
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Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#3re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:30am
Yes, Hairspray is being shortened to 90 minutes for Las Vegas as well.
Updated On: 7/26/05 at 12:30 AM
#4re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:32amHow long is avenue Q originally?
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#5re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:35amQ isn't that long, really. It'll be a much greater task to shorten Spamalot, probably.
MissMommy
Chorus Member Joined: 1/28/05
#6re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:38amI did a tab version of Grease there a few hundred years ago. They took out chunks of dialog, left in all the dancing, so we could play it twice a night back-to-back. They don't want to keep you out of the casino for too long
#7re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:40am
This came up on another thread, and while I suppose on one level it's a shame that they are shortening these shows, most of them aren't going to be traumatized or that much less enjoyable with the trims.
If HAIRSPRAY loses "Baltimore Crabs" you won't hear me complaining...
#8re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:42amWhy should they want to keep you in the theater for the full amount of time when they could have pay the same money for less time and back out gambling sooner? Gotta love Vegas.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#10re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:53amumm..i recall the creators saying in an interview that the show was going to remain exactly the same as the broadway show exception to a few techincal differences
#11re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:53am
And if Vegas really does become a mini Broadway of the West, with Disney and other producers mounting full productions there, *i.e. people coming to Vegas specifically to see shows and not as part of a gambling trip* you'll start seeing full length productions.
But hey, you gotta start somewhere...
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#12re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:54amI love "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs"! I prefer the lyrics on the recording, but it's still a great number!
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#13re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 12:59am
Wait. Hasn't Broadway already become Vegas East? Mamma Mia, Good Vibrations, All Shook Up, Suzanne Somers, Goulet in LaCage, Avenue Q ........
Don't shows just try out here now, so they go there and make the real money?
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BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#14re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 1:07amTimes are changing Margo...times are changing. Sorry.
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#15re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 1:27am
Margo U are usually the voice of reason
I bow at yer feet.
But of the shows u mentioned
2 are big floppo stinkers
1 is not gonna make it's $ back
and the ABBA thing
is what it is and a $ maker without Vegas
will we ever get a 90 min "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?"
for the free drinkers in the Casinos?
#16re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 1:28amMost Shows have two acts, usuall the acts are 1:30 for act one and 1:00 for act two.
#17re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 1:39am
They made a point in saying that Vegas' Q wouldn't be cut to 90 minutes.
The Associated Press also reports that the tuner will be shortened to 90 minutes for its Vegas run. (Avenue Q, which bows in late August at Wynn Las Vegas, is one of the few musicals not being trimmed to 90 minutes before it hits Sin City.) broadway.com
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CurtainPullDowner
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broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#19re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 1:49am
"Hasn't Broadway already become Vegas East? Mamma Mia, Good Vibrations, All Shook Up, Suzanne Somers, Goulet in LaCage, Avenue Q ........"
Now Margo, Q is not a jukebox musical of pre-existing tunes nor does it does have a mega-hasbeen as a lead
Would you really put it in the same category as those others?
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#20re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 1:55am
In the last 20 years, the composition of audiences for Broadway has shifted from a third tourists (and two third metro area) to two thirds tourists (and one third metro area). These are the same vacation-goers who do a week in Vegas every year. They're not thinking about "art" or a transformative artistic experience. They want BIG entertainment -- whether it is here or Vegas.
Mamma Mia would run for the next 20 years in Vegas, if the producers of it wanted a company there (not sure why they don't or haven't). Avenue Q has a brand new, state of the art, multi-miilion dollar theatre about to open that Steve Wynn built just for them. Suzanne Somers debuted her show in Vegas to acclaim, has bookings for it all over the country, and can go back and run it there for years if she wants to.
If the producers of Good Vibrations and All Shook Up want to, the mind REELS at how many years those two shows would run in Vegas. A Beach Boys and Elvis musical that already played Broadway? There would be lines around the block and they could charge a LOT MORE than $100 for prime seats.
Face it, Broadway is a try-out for Vegas now. The stuff that's artistically innovative and challenging that opens here on commercial Broadway is dismissed by this lunkheaded set of critics we have that now can't appreciate any score more harmonically complicated than The Producers. No show that attempts to push the artform forward apparently can run more than 4 or 5 months in a commercial setting. So, Broadway has now become a try-out place for the new Vegas shows.
Can't wait till "Wayne Newton -- At Liberty" gets here.
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Updated On: 7/26/05 at 01:55 AM
#21re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 2:00am::bashes her head into a wall after realizing that Margo's post is true::
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MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#23re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 4:46am
Condensed versions of Broadway musicals have been a Vegas standby for forty years at least - most of these have been classics like HELLO DOLLY! or GUYS AND DOLLS.
I'm actually surprised more current Broadway musicals haven't gone Vegas by now.
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Updated On: 7/26/05 at 04:46 AM
ozbwayfan
Chorus Member Joined: 6/12/05
#24re: Ave Q reduced??
Posted: 7/26/05 at 5:12amI too am surprised that more broadway shows haven't made the Vegas transition. Wicked for example would rake it in...A massive spectacle and some powerhouse belting are all the average consumer wants from a musical. And maybe a faded TV celebrity.
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