Season of Closings

Posted: 11/23/08 at 6:48pm

Its so hard to keep track, so can people help make a list of all the shows that have closed since the Tonys this year?

I'm also curious to trying to figure out what theaters are going to sit dark and what is going in where (for example-Curtains and A Tale of Two Cities both closed since the Tonys and Hair is going into the Hirschfeld.)

And with all the shows closing in Jan.-maybe some closing dates with shows too?

Thanks gang.
Updated On: 11/23/08 at 06:48 PM

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 6:49pm

www.ibdb.com should have all your answers. Just search 2007-2008; 2008-2009.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 6:50pm

What are you going to do with that list?

Posted: 11/23/08 at 6:52pm

Read it and be informed...

I also teach and my kids are curious as to the subject. It seems to be the only part of the economic mess that they are interested in.

Posted: 11/23/08 at 6:54pm

Yankeefan-thanks. I didn't know that option was available on IBDB.

[Little-Lotte]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:12pm

Broadway is gonna be like a ghost town come January.

I know not literally but its just amazing how many shows have closed this season, especially the ones that have been somewhat long running!

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:21pm

...very scary...but I feel the tide is turning come the new year;I'm hopeful
Just too bad a lot of those shows did not get their run's worth for the Tony nods.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:27pm

The Color Purple
Spelling Bee
Grey Gardens
Curtains
Cry Baby
Passing Strange
Rent
Xanadu
[title of show]
Legally Blonde
A Tale of Two Cities
^ Shows that have already closed this year.

...Incase anyone didn't wana go to a different website.

Sorry if I left out one or two.

Updated On: 11/23/08 at 07:27 PM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:32pm

GREY GARDENS and COLOR PURPLE closed last season.

This season's major closings began with RENT:

RENT
XANADU
[TITLE OF SHOW]
LEGALLY BLONDE
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
AMERICAN BUFFALO
13
SPAMALOT
HAIRSPRAY
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

[Ole Chum]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:35pm

Im sure this is a dumb question, but have there ever been this many empty theaters at one time on Broadway?

I mean, come February the Belasco, Booth, Broadhurst, Circle in the Square, Hilton, Jacobs, O'Neill, Shubert, and Walter Kerr theaters will all be empty- not to mention the Longacre which will probably be empty after the holidays, and the St James which will be empty March 1st the latest.

I know some smaller plays will be filling some of these houses, but I cant remmeber a time when this many prime theaters were just empty and quiet.

[Mamie]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:35pm

I wonder if this will make it even harder to get good seats for the really good shows that remain or if the economy will keep people away from them too?

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:35pm

CapnHook, Curtains too.

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:38pm

Plus Spring Awakening.

[rich.hanson59]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:39pm

Cry-Baby: June 22, 2008
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: June 22, 2008
Curtains: June 29, 2008
Sunday in the Park with George: June 29, 2008
Top Girls: June 29, 2008
Les Liasins Dangereuses: July 6, 2008
November: July 13, 2008
The Country Girl: July 20, 2008
Passing Strange: July 20, 2008
A Catered Affair: July 27, 2008
A Chorus Line: August 17, 2008
Thurgood: August 17, 2008
Cirque Dreams: August 24, 2008
Rent: September 7, 2008
Xanadu: September 28, 2008
[title of show]: October 12, 2008
Legally Blonde: October 19, 2008
A Tale of Two Cities: November 9, 2008
To Be or Not To Be: November 16, 2008
---------------------------------------
13: January 4, 2009
Young Frankenstein: January 4, 2009
Hairspray: January 4, 2009
Spamalot: January 11, 2009
Spring Awakening: January 18, 2009

Line seperates shows that have closed and shows that are closing.

Any additions or corrections are welcomed.
Updated On: 11/23/08 at 07:39 PM

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:42pm

Cirque Dreams was a limited engagment.

[Maurice]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:42pm

Here are the closing dates for shows currently running. It includes limited engagements as well.

13 - 1/4/2009
All My Sons - 1/11/2009
American Buffalo - 11/23/2008
Dividing the Estate - 1/4/2009
Equus - 2/8/2009
Hairspray - 1/4/2009
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas - 1/4/2009
A Man for All Seasons - 12/14/2008
Monty Python’s Spamalot - 1/11/2009
Pal Joey - 2/15/2009
The Seagull - 12/21/2008
Speed-the-Plow - 2/22/2009
Spring Awakening - 1/18/2009
Young Frankenstein - 1/4/2009

Updated On: 11/23/08 at 07:42 PM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:44pm

Well, it's safe to assume that these theatres won't all be dark for long. There are lots of new productions looking for houses.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:48pm

Mary Stuart is going into the Broadhurst and Blithe Spririt has the Shubert.

[Nicholas Clar]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:51pm

some of those shoes had some successful runs.

[Nicholas Clar]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:51pm

some of those shoes had some successful runs.

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:53pm

"Im sure this is a dumb question, but have there ever been this many empty theaters at one time on Broadway?"

...not dumb at all, Ole Chum. With the tide of closings, you wonder, really =I

[cello_dude]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:55pm

. Updated On: 11/23/08 at 07:55 PM

[MadameRoseRules]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 7:59pm

There's an email making the rounds about all the stores that are closing in this area, too, due to this awful economy. I wonder how George W. Bush can sleep at night with all the wretched things that happened on his watch.

[Magdalene]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 8:13pm

Isn't Gypsy closing March 1st also?

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 8:20pm

Gypsy is closing March 4th.