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Posted: 12/1/08 at 11:01pm
At the spring gala, the founders daughter made an appearance ... and I remember thinking, "if she could be alive for the 100th anniversary... "
An extremely sad day ... ironically, this was not AMT's fault:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/12/01/daily18.html
American Musical Theatre of San Jose said Monday that it has closed its operations and will file Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week.
All of the employees were laid off the day before Thanksgiving.
Michael French, a spokesman for AMT said the nonprofit suffered a $1.7 million dollar loss from a deal with Theater of the Stars in Atlanta that was doing a Tarzan musical based on the Disney production. The show was scheduled to come to San Jose in February.
Michael Miller, AMT's CEO and executive producer, said in a press release that the Atlanta group used the funds "for other things."
"In essence, they canceled the show without giving us any warning, and we discovered that the funds we had paid for `Tarzan’ were spent on another production of theirs, which lost a significant amount of money," Miller said.
Legal action against the Theater of the Stars is likely, AMT officials said.
"We are devastated for this community, our staff, and most of all for our loyal patrons," Miller said. "It is especially frustrating because of how hard we have worked, how sound our plan going forward has been, and because of the history and heritage of the American Musical Theatre of San Jose. This is a sad moment for all of us."
Tickets for “Chicago” in January will still be honored and officials are working to negotiate a deal for “Avenue Q” scheduled to run in March. “Tarzan” and “42nd Street” have been canceled.
Team San Jose Chairman and Convention & Visitors Bureau Chief Executive Officer Dan Fenton said his organization had already been in contact with a number of Broadway producers to book shows at the Center for Performing Arts where AMT performed.
“This is not the end of Broadway in San Jose,” Fenton said. “We’re very confident that San Jose is a market where they want to be.”
Fenton said he was optimistic that a full schedule could be announced for the following season.
“For downtown restaurants in particular, it’s a big deal for them and that’s the biggest reason to move quickly,” Fenton said.
An extremely sad day ... ironically, this was not AMT's fault:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/12/01/daily18.html
American Musical Theatre of San Jose said Monday that it has closed its operations and will file Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week.
All of the employees were laid off the day before Thanksgiving.
Michael French, a spokesman for AMT said the nonprofit suffered a $1.7 million dollar loss from a deal with Theater of the Stars in Atlanta that was doing a Tarzan musical based on the Disney production. The show was scheduled to come to San Jose in February.
Michael Miller, AMT's CEO and executive producer, said in a press release that the Atlanta group used the funds "for other things."
"In essence, they canceled the show without giving us any warning, and we discovered that the funds we had paid for `Tarzan’ were spent on another production of theirs, which lost a significant amount of money," Miller said.
Legal action against the Theater of the Stars is likely, AMT officials said.
"We are devastated for this community, our staff, and most of all for our loyal patrons," Miller said. "It is especially frustrating because of how hard we have worked, how sound our plan going forward has been, and because of the history and heritage of the American Musical Theatre of San Jose. This is a sad moment for all of us."
Tickets for “Chicago” in January will still be honored and officials are working to negotiate a deal for “Avenue Q” scheduled to run in March. “Tarzan” and “42nd Street” have been canceled.
Team San Jose Chairman and Convention & Visitors Bureau Chief Executive Officer Dan Fenton said his organization had already been in contact with a number of Broadway producers to book shows at the Center for Performing Arts where AMT performed.
“This is not the end of Broadway in San Jose,” Fenton said. “We’re very confident that San Jose is a market where they want to be.”
Fenton said he was optimistic that a full schedule could be announced for the following season.
“For downtown restaurants in particular, it’s a big deal for them and that’s the biggest reason to move quickly,” Fenton said.
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"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" -- The Beatles
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Celebrate Earth Day, every day" -- John Denver
"Don't let them mold your mind, they want to control mankind, seems like their only intention is to exploit the earth; and you trust in their deceit, your mind causes your defeat, and so you become an invention to distort this earth; propoganda and lies, is a plague in our lives, how much more victimized, before we realize (hey) ... they'll make it attractive, to get man destracted, corrupting your (soul), polluting your (soul), destroying (your soul, mind control) ... ooh grand master, let the people go, you put them in total confusion, to downs-troy their soul; for they practise what you preach, so they're always in your reach, hi-tech slavery in these days, its mind control" -- Stephen Marley
Updated On: 12/1/08 at 11:01 PM
Very upsetting, and even more disgraceful on TOTS' part in all of this. They're reputation has been slipping, and this is the final nail in the coffin of my opinion of them. To use funds from AMT that were allotted for TARZAN on ANOTHER show is just not responsible. 
