A Lot of Empty Theatres!!!!!!

I have just been looking at all the shows that have closed or are closing in the near future and it seems to me that we will be having alot of empty theatres soon. Could any show sneak in and open before the summer is out (like in August)??? And which ones possibly could. I was thinking succesful plays off-broadway that don't need much work to come to broadway. Anyone think this could happen and what shows could possibly transfer?

Updated On: 5/30/06 at 10:00 PM

"I hope that Disney scraps their plans to move The Lion King into the Minskoff and just bring Mary Poppins into the Palace. That makes more sense and saves a lot of time and money."

This isn't going to happen (at least the scrapping the Minskoff part). SO much construction has already been done at the Minskoff to make way for Lion King. They wouldn't throw all of that out the window.

Don't Disney actually own the Amsterdam? At either the Minskoff or Palace they are a tenant, right? I'd think the Minskoff would be glad to have The Lion King a long term occupant for that troubled house.

Disney doesn't own The New Amsterdam. We have a long term lease (49 years I believe) but are in the process of trying to buy it.

wow, 49 year lease? I didn't know that's how it worked. Who does own it? And I'm not sure if any shows will open during the summer. I would think most shows would hold off until the late fall just to insure that they'd be open during the awards season.

But apart from 48th Street's two handmaidens of sorrow, the Cort and Longacre, most of the empty theatres have fall bookings. And the Barrymore and Palace will surely be snatched up soon. Many currently booked theatres have their next tenants lined up.

EDIT: The Belasco is home to Awake and Sing! It's a limited run, but it's doing respectable business, and could possibly extend in the event of a Tony win for Best Revival of a Play, which seems likely.

Schoenfeld - A Chorus Line
Walter Kerr - Grey Gardens
Booth - Butley, and The Year of Magical Thinking
Brooks Atkinson - The Times They Are A Changin'
Helen Hayes - The Two and Only
Jacobs - Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Hilton - The Pirate Queen (rumored)
Music Box - The Vertical Hour
Broadhurst - Les Miserables
Minskoff - The Lion King
Vivian Beaumont - The Coast of Utopia

Company is coming in the fall, although the theatre has yet to be announced.

That actually leaves very few choices of open theatres for producers hoping to bring a show in.

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Updated On: 5/30/06 at 11:16 PM

I've heard that Company is going to the Barrymore. Any truth to this?

courtnyj, could be possible. It's a smaller theater.

ooh thank you for that list, Smaxie!

The L.A. comedy "Curtains", a musical starring David Hyde Pierce, should be going to Broadway in the same way/time that "Drowsy Chaperone" came. Curtains ends in September, while Drowsy ended in December, and both were listed as pre-Broadway engagaments. Thus... where's Curtains going? (It's Kander and Ebb, so I assume it WILL be going.)

I was told at the stage door that there is no possible way that Awake and Sing! will extend any further, which is a shame.

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Isn't there a show that's been rumored to go into the Palace?? I forgot what it is.

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Mame was rumored for the Palace, I believe according to Reidel.

Edit- What Smaxie said.

Updated On: 5/31/06 at 06:25 PM