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AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#25AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 9:59pm
American Psycho has been rumored for the Belasco.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#26AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:00pm
Isn't American Psycho going into a Schubert house? Either the Belasco or the Booth probably.
Updated On: 9/16/15 at 10:00 PM
#27AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:01pm
Mr Roxy said: "You have no idea re my financial situation so do not offer half baked opinions. This has been heavily discounted since it opened.Try going from 2 paying jobs to 2 people on Social Security and see how you do it wise guy.Broadway now is a luxury."
We all know about your financial situation because all you do everyday is talk about it incessantly. I'll let you know when I have another stupid question for you and the Mrs.
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
actormcfamous
Stand-by Joined: 1/12/06
#28AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:02pm
Have heard that NEWSIES may be coming back. Not sure if it'll be the tour a la HAIR or a separate production, but have heard whisperings that Disney is regretting closing it.
#29AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:04pm
actormcfamous said: "Have heard that NEWSIES may be coming back. Not sure if it'll be the tour a la HAIR or a separate production, but have heard whisperings that Disney is regretting closing it."
If Disney is bringing back one of their musicals, it needs to be Beauty and the Beast.
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
#30AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:06pm
Add me to the camp that is surprised that they are waiting so long. I saw the headline and assumed they would shutter on the 27th of September, Flea Market day.
Also, can we please get a Spring Awakening transfer?! Pretty please!
#31AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:18pm
actormcfamous said: "Have heard that NEWSIES may be coming back. Not sure if it'll be the tour a la HAIR or a separate production, but have heard whisperings that Disney is regretting closing it. "
That sounds like a rumor started on tumblr by a bitter Newsies fan-girl.
Obviously I'm not in a position to know for sure, but I'd be really surprised if that turns out to be true.
c0113g3b0y
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#32AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:42pm
MaddieBB12 said:
Also, can we please get a Spring Awakening transfer?! Pretty please!
THIS. I don't want the Tony voting committee / nomination committee to forget this show. I think S.A. would be perfect for the Nederlander theatre if their current run at the Brooks Atkinson sells well.
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The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
#33AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:45pm
I am not surprised. As I said in another thread weeks ago, it was pretty clear they would continue losing money until they were kicked to the curb.
actorsnonactors
Chorus Member Joined: 12/20/12
#34AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:45pm
I think taking this production out of NY and directly to target markets (the Bible Belt, deep south) will make it (yeah I'm gonna say it) one of the highest grossing tours of its season.
Also, I share the astonishment that it lasted this long. Its creator pumped all sorts of plasma into it, and took a HUGE hit. 25 percent sales do not a financial success make.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#35AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:48pm
It is a shame another one had to close early. Glad to hear it will have a life in Branson, MO.
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#36AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:51pm
MaddieBB12 said: "Also, can we please get a Spring Awakening transfer?! Pretty please!"
It has to become a financial success in its current incarnation first. There is no such thing as an emotional transfer.
trpguyy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
#37AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:53pm
Troika must be getting desperate. But if they can fit it into 4 trucks or less, and down the road cram it into every gymatorium in the South (like Color Purple did), it could end up being a money-maker.
c0113g3b0y
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#38AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 10:58pm
I'm just happy this piece of crap isn't going to be polluting Broadway for much longer.
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#39AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 11:08pm
It's a real shame you feel this way. Sorry to disappoint you but a lot of us are going to love it when we see it before it closes and we will be able to say we saw it and it was a shame the critics had it in for the show because it wasn't that bad and we are happy it is being recorded and it will have an afterlife.
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#40AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 11:11pm
If Spring awakening actually has decent receipts in the next few weeks, I could see the Nederlanders trying to broker a deal to move Waitress into the Nederlander.
otherwise I see the theater going to Amelie.
Disney is not bringing Newsies back, it has a full restore schedule through the end of next season, and if anything Disney would wait another year and bring it back as a "revival", as it hasn't played in New York in three years. If Disney were to do anything it would be prep Hunchback, for a Newsies style engagement, positioning itself as the true underdog to Hamilton, just as Newsies was to Once. This also could be a ploy by Disney, to guarantee the Nederlanders event either Finding Neverland or an American in Paris, so that they can ensure that Frozen, has a premier house if it indeed comes next year. It would be a we fill your house for the summer so that you give us the house we want come winter. That is also the only way I see Newsies coming back as well. Do I think this is going to happen, no, but that is the only way/reason Disney will have anything to do with the Neaderlander.
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#41AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 11:11pm
This ^. This seems to always be the case for shows that have been sh*t on for their entire run and all of a sudden love is pouring over in its final weeks. I don't get it.
If you ask me... Spring Awakening can only downsize, unfortunately. They can not and will not transfer to a larger theater.
#42AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 11:41pm
I'm sorry for those involved now out of a job, but I will certainly not miss this show with its condescension and racism. Who makes a musical involving slavery and asks the audience to sympathize with the slave owner?? And let's not even get into the fact that this was created by an entirely white creative team...
#43AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 11:44pm
^ Kind of answered your own question at the end there.
#44AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/16/15 at 11:45pm
SPRING AWAKENING isn't leaving the Brooks Atkinson, but I'm sure we can all expect an official announcement about AMELIE coming to the Nederlander with a spring opening.
#45AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/17/15 at 12:52am
I'm a little puzzled at the closing date, though.....
if they're gonna wait that long to close it, while not take advantage of the mid-western families that would eat that crapola up in November and December? It's like the producers are allergic to common sense.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#46AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/17/15 at 1:09am
Pippin said: "I'm a little puzzled at the closing date, though.....
if they're gonna wait that long to close it, while not take advantage of the mid-western families that would eat that crapola up in November and December? It's like the producers are allergic to common sense."
UMMMM, If the Mid-West families didn't eat it up this summer, why would they go over Christmas???? They will too busy going to the RCMH Christmas crap.
Updated On: 9/17/15 at 01:09 AM
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#47AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/17/15 at 1:52am
But the closing is over a month away, which is just beyond me. It's only going to get more desolate out there with the Sept/Oct drought.
And I'd imagine Amelie/Bright Star taking the theatre.
I'd think Frozen would want a more central theatre. Like the Lunt.
#48AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/17/15 at 7:47am
$$ from several church-oriented donors kept this ridiculously embarrassing turkey open for several hugely-in-the-red months; those $$ would have served the world better by funding homeless shelters or soup kitchens. The show is cheap, stupid, reductive, sentimental, dull, and musically illiterate - the stage equivalent of a bad self-published romance novel.
I hope that poor Tom Hewitt gets into a hit next; when was the last time he originated a role in a success? Jeffrey?
Updated On: 9/17/15 at 07:47 AM
c0113g3b0y
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#49AMAZING GRACE sets closing
Posted: 9/17/15 at 9:19am
newintown said: "$$ from several church-oriented donors kept this ridiculously embarrassing turkey open for several hugely-in-the-red months; those $$ would have served the world better by funding homeless shelters or soup kitchens. The show is cheap, stupid, reductive, sentimental, dull, and musically illiterate - the stage equivalent of a bad self-published romance novel.
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Exactly my thoughts. Thanks for wording what I wanted to say about this garbage
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
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