'13' closing night...

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 8:55pm

As other posters have said "each show deserves there own closing thread" and '13' should be no exception, no matter how much certain people may have disliked it.

I was there today, the show was very moving, by the end the whole cast was crying and Jason Robert Brown gave a great speech at the end, and cried himself. I really am at a lost of words after today, who ever else was there please feel free to add stuff.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 8:56pm

I enjoyed the show very much :)
hope to be seeing Allie back on broadway sometime soon!!

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 9:00pm

I liked this show a lot and hope that they all go on to have great Broadway careers.

[Sleeper2]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:22am

The creative team behind 13 had a lot of nerve demanding more than $100 per ticket for this show. They let down the talented young cast and the theater-going public. Choreography, direction, music -- all formulaic and boring. They should be ashamed of themselves.

[blondebaby589]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:27am

The creative team behind 13 had a lot of nerve demanding more than $100 per ticket for this show.

Thank you.

[Mbmusic]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 3:49pm

"The creative team behind 13 had a lot of nerve demanding more than $100 per ticket for this show. They let down the talented young cast and the theater-going public. Choreography, direction, music -- all formulaic and boring. They should be ashamed of themselves."

This is a forum on a website called "Broadwayworld.com." We are all supporters of Broadway and live theater. How dare you come into this thread and nay say a show that, yes, maybe mediocre by saying that the creative team should be ashamed of themselves. In a time of economic distress when in one day alone nine shows closed. Do you have any knowledge of the specifics of the finances for producing a Broadway musical? I saw '13' and can admit that it was no masterpiece, but one has to realize that Broadway is still a business whether the cast is of thirteen-year-olds or a cast of Broadway veterans.

To blame the creators for this show's misfortune is a disgrace and unforgivable. And god-forbid the kids in this show should have only missed several months of School and regular life instead of over a year or however long it could have run for had its run been in a better time and circumstance. The show was no West Side Story, but it was well done and good for what it was.

Your comments were simply rude and untrue.

M

Updated On: 1/5/09 at 03:49 PM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 5:18pm

I wish these kids long healthy careers.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 6:53pm

"The creative team behind 13 had a lot of nerve demanding more than $100 per ticket for this show. They let down the talented young cast and the theater-going public. Choreography, direction, music -- all formulaic and boring. They should be ashamed of themselves."

They did not let down the cast - the show ran over 100 performances and hopefully helped launch the career of a group of talented youth. As short as the run was, I am sure much of the cast will find success in the future.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 7:01pm

I thought the show had some potential. The songs were fairly catchy and the story - though sort of lame - made sense with the whole world of a thirteen year old. However, most of the technical aspects were awful, and the show might have worked better in a smaller house with a smaller cast. I think it will do wonders regionally though.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 8:01pm

I saw lots of people yesterday there with $122 tickets.
Stupid people don't know about discounts or student rush, but either way, they paid full price.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 8:11pm

"I saw lots of people yesterday there with $122 tickets.
Stupid people don't know about discounts or student rush, but either way, they paid full price."

As far as I know, there were no discounts for the final performance of 13.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 8:18pm

Really?
Then ... that explains why I saw lots of full priced tickets.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 8:28pm

I SO don't understand the posters reference to the kids missing school. WHAT has that got to do with ANYTHING? They either STILL went to school or were tutored AT rehearsal. THAT is a reqauirement of working underage actors.


And the poster has every right to THINK whatever they was about the creative team. Doesn't make it true....but it doesn't make the opposite true by you berating him/her.

Opinions have nothing to do with supporting or NOT supporting B'way. If a poster thinks something is NOT worthy of B'way or his/her own standards so be it.

If I have a choice between drek on B'way or very little on B'way: I'd rather have very little. This is not in reference to 13 as I have no opinion about the show...I just have opinions about opinions.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 8:57pm

And god-forbid the kids in this show should have only missed several months of School and regular life instead of over a year or however long it could have run for had its run been in a better time and circumstance.

It would be against the law for the children to miss several months of school. The cast either continued to attend school (usually a private school, which is more forgiving with taking Wednesdays off) in the area, or they were tutored by a qualified teacher hired by the producers. Its a stipulation of employing child actors.

I don't have my Playbill handy, but I would guess the tutoring services were provided by On Location Education, the agency that handles most theatrical productions with students in them.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:11pm

They did not perform Wednesday matinees, but Sunday evenings instead.
And their weeknight shows were at 7, so I'm sure they were able to be home, and get a decent sleep, too.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:12pm

For the majority of the run, 13 had matinees on Saturdays and Sundays (and evening shows both days too). This way, during the week, they went to school during the day, and did the show in the evening. I'm sure the ones that already lived in New York still attended school during the run of the show.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:23pm

Al, Delaney, Eric and Malik went to regular school, the rest did online schooling.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:36pm

Your knowledge about the personal lives of underage children is creepy.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:43pm

No, it's called 13fans.com and Al goes to school with my cousin, but nice try hun.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:05pm

It's still creepy that you know this much about underage actors in an awful show, hon.

[Mbmusic]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:13pm

That is correct. The kids in the show who did not go to their regular schools did online schooling. And many of the kids in the show were from Florida and the West coast, my point being they weren't at home. I wasn't referring to the kids' normal schools and lives, not their temporary ones. Of course education is legally a must. I know plenty of people who've been on tours and who work on Broadway shows (including '13') and it's a heck of a lot of work and running around. And especially when these kids are at the age that they're at, it's not the end of the world that the show didn't run a long time.

P.S.-- To whoever defended opinions- that's all true what you said, but the creative team simply does not control ticket pricing. And the post criticizing the creative team was genuinely obnoxious, especially since we've heard so many negative things about '13' on this forum.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:14pm

Awful show is an opinion, I loved it. The stuff about them I know is only because the cast members themselves told me, I didn't go looking for information. Would they really tell a creepy adult things? Think.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:17pm

I know nothing about your candy carrying, 13 wooing van that you drive down 45th St.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:33pm

"Would they really tell a creepy adult things?"
So are you admitting that you are a creepy adult?

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:40pm

No, I'm not. I was at the teen night.
Now you can guess my age.