A Lot of Empty Theatres!!!!!!
#0A Lot of Empty Theatres!!!!!!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:00pm
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
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:01pmI 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.
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:04pm
"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.
#3re: Alot of Empty Theatres!!!!!!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:06pm
Why? It's not your time. It's not your money.
What Disney did for the New Amsterdam was wonderful and whatever they do to the Minkskoff is welcomed - though understandly it won't be nearly as much.
--Aristotle
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:15pmDon'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.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#5re: Alot of Empty Theatres!!!!!!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:17pmWhen I was in high school, my fellow students and I also thought that "alot" was one word. Where did we ever get that idea and why does every generation seem to think that too? Well, a lot of them do.
clarkstallings
Leading Actor Joined: 1/9/05
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:44pmDisney 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.
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:51pmSo I guess nobody has any replies on my actualy post (not that theres anything wrong with that).
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:04pmwow, 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.
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:14pmYes, it's very sad how many empty theatre there are. It seems like one or two shows are dominating Broadway right now, and there is no room for newcomers. I hope the Belasco is filled soon...I love that theatre.
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:16pm
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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Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:20pm
ClarkStalling must own the New Amsterdam Theare ("we have a long term lease"), congratulations.
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:29pmI've heard that Company is going to the Barrymore. Any truth to this?
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:35pmI hope Awake and Sing! extends, not only because I love the show, but I hate to see that theatre empty.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:42pmcourtnyj, could be possible. It's a smaller theater.
AutographHound
Chorus Member Joined: 5/24/06
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Posted: 5/31/06 at 5:12pmI agree with you on 2 points, the first being that I also hope that Awake & Sing gets an extended run (maybe if Pablo Schreiber wins the TONY that will boost the show) & I also like the Belasco Theatre. But when I was there to see Awake & Sing it didnt look like they have fully restored the theatre from when Denzel Washington's Julius Caeser was there in '05. It looks like the box seats havent been fully rebuilt?
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Posted: 5/31/06 at 5:44pmI thought Faith Healer was the favorite to win revival. I did not like Awake and Sing at all and it does NOT deserve best revival (I haven't seen Faith Healer yet, but Seascape was much better)
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#18re: Alot of Empty Theatres!!!!!!
Posted: 5/31/06 at 5:52pm
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.)
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Posted: 5/31/06 at 5:57pmAnother fan of Faith Healer here as well!
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Posted: 5/31/06 at 6:16pmI 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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Posted: 5/31/06 at 6:17pmi'm seeing Awake & Sing this weekend. i'm glad i got my ticket then!
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Posted: 5/31/06 at 6:22pmIsn't there a show that's been rumored to go into the Palace?? I forgot what it is.
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Posted: 5/31/06 at 6:24pmRiedel has mentioned Mame, Legally Blonde, Curtains and The Pajama Game's fall return as possibilities for the Palace.
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Posted: 5/31/06 at 6:25pm
Mame was rumored for the Palace, I believe according to Reidel.
Edit- What Smaxie said.
Updated On: 5/31/06 at 06:25 PM
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