"Adding Machine" at Circle in the Square?

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"Adding Machine" at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/7/08 at 9:40pm

With Adding Machine winning 4 Lucille Lortel Awards, and it's critical (and commercial? I'm not sure) success, along with Glory Days moving out of the Circle in the Square, any chance of Adding Machine moving in there?

Thoughts?

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re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/7/08 at 9:45pm

NO
It is the best Musical of this season, but design wise, it is perfect where it is.
NO.
Let It Be.

Updated On: 5/7/08 at 09:45 PM

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/7/08 at 9:47pm

Ben- Dont you think the suprised scenery at the end would work in CITS? I personally think it would only work on a regular proscenium stage...

Yeah! I would love to see a Broadway transfer! though I dont think its accesible to the common public. Its a cerebral show and its an expressionist play too!

J*

Updated On: 5/7/08 at 09:47 PM

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/7/08 at 9:49pm

You're absolutely right about the last scene J*.

To be perfectly honest, I haven't been to CITS in ages, so I don't perfectly remember what the stage looks like. Was just a thought, that's all.

Long Live Adding Machine!!!!

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re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/7/08 at 9:49pm

perdect?

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/7/08 at 9:59pm

sorry. I was a good typer in junior high.

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:40am

I really hope Adding Machine transfers to broadway. I saw it at Next in chicago and absolutely loved it! David Cromer(the director) is one of my directing professor's and I was just in his production of west side story- hes a brilliant director and deserves to have a show on broadway! However Circle in the Square i dont think is the right venue.... IMHO.

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:42am

Godspell should go to Circle in the Square. It does NOT work in a proscenium theatre.

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:54am

I really want to see this show, I just wish it had a commercial future because I'm not sure how long a show can run off-Broadway.

#10

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 9:14am

ADDING MACHINE should just stay exactly where it is. The current theatre is perfect for it, anything bigger would swamp the show.

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#11

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:55pm

I loved Adding Machine, but it should not transfer to broadway irrespective of location, Circle in the Square included. It would be a disaster in the making.

"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)

#12

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 4:17pm

I strongly hated the show and found it a slow-moving, plodding chamber opera. I don't think it would work with a tourist-type Broadway audience. "Next to Normal" has much broader appeal and excellent acting/music/storyline.

#13

re: 'Adding Machine' at Circle in the Square?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 4:27pm

Right. NEXT TO NORMAL is perfectly designed to appeal to a non-demanding tourist audience, the folks who have kept PHANTOM running for nearly 20 years. The last thing they'd want is something intelligent like ADDING MACHINE.

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