A Man of No Importance coming to Broadway? — Page 2

Circle being a Broadway house was never debated. 

What play is going to the CITS? I hope it’s Eureka Day with Helen Hunt

milkywhitestan said: "I have no doubt that this show eventually makes it way to Broadway. Probably next season."

I'm personally hoping next season because this current one already has so many musical revivals.

The revivals this year are just STACKED! What a great season we're having.

Robbie516 said: "Do you think this will sell better than Parade? Jim Parsons is a huge name…"

No. 

It's a bit tough to predict his box office power here.

On one hand, his last 2 Broadway shows recouped - which is actually a pretty stellar track record, these days. But An Act of God was at the height of his Big Bang Theory fame, and in Boys in the Band, he had some other stars alongside him - it was more of an "event" piece, rather than a "come see Jim Parsons" piece. So it's tough to know how many tickets he'll sell by himself, now that now that Big Bang Theory is irrelevant.

We've seen before that a tv/movie star in a musical often sells better than a tv/movie star in a play. But then again, this intimate, lesser-known musical might as well be a play, for all its marketability and broad-appeal (I love the musical, personally).

On the plus side, with John Doyle's staging, it'll be capitalized at approximately...what? A thousand dollars?

As for whether it's a Tony-worthy performance - I thought he was awful, but I saw it in early previews, and I heard he improved somewhat. So take that how you will.

 

JoeW4 said: "On the plus side, with John Doyle's staging, it'll be capitalized at approximately...what? A thousand dollars?"

Why is this so accurate?

It was a magnificent show down at CSC and the CITS would be a perfect fit with virtually no changes to the physical production except to build a brick back wall and gallery where one existed at CSC. 

The onstage orchestra included 4 musicians in the gallery plus at least 4 cast members who played strings, guitar and some timpani (and beautifully). So the CSC score was orchestrated for at least 8 musicians.

Sorry to say that Jim Parsons, while perfectly acceptable in the lead role, was far outmatched by his costars' spectacular performances. Most unlikely that he'll reap a Tony nom for this.

JasonC3 said: "Did several very recent comments related to reviews/show popularity get deleted?"

Other thread:

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1155285&page=2

The Broadway gods really decided to transfer this instead of CSC assassins. Damn

nativenewyorker2 said: "The Broadway gods really decided to transfer this instead of CSC assassins. Damn"

Considering some of the bigger names in that cast are off on other projects right now, I doubt they wanted to move the production without most or all of the actors they had at CSC.

- Ethan Slater is doing the WICKED movie
- Brandon Uranowitz is in LEOPOLDSTADT
- Will Swenson is leading A BEAUTIFUL NOISE
- Steven Pasquale joined a new ABC series, "Avalon" with Neve Campbell.

 

jkcohen626 said: "I'm surprised this hasn't been announced yet. Usually it's only a day or two after the test event pops up."

Today was the Oscar nominations, so its safe to assume producers wanted to steer clear if they actually wanted to the announcement to be covered by any news or entertainment news outlets. I was surprised it didn't come yesterday, but maybe once again producers were thinking they didn't want to be swept under the rug with Oscar coverage, as well as Room semi-beat them to the punch. I would guess we are likely to get the announcement this week, probably on Thursday or Friday though. 

As of yesterday, this is no longer happening. Jim Parsons and the producers couldn’t settle on a number so the entire thing is off. He texted the cast personally to let them know.