American Buffalo closed

[PRFRMR20]

American Buffalo closed#1

Posted: 11/24/08 at 12:18pm

As previously speculated...

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/123642.html

[popular_elphie]

re: American Buffalo closed#2

Posted: 11/24/08 at 12:33pm

Ugh I hate this stupid recession.

[ColorTheHours048]

re: American Buffalo closed#2

Posted: 11/24/08 at 1:32pm

That's a damn shame. I saw it on Saturday afternoon and I was impressed. It exceeded my expectations. Given a couple more weeks to ease into the very difficult dialogue (and to find ways to not make Falls' AWFUL direction look so aimless), it would have been a truly excellent production that I think would have had some critics eating their hats. It is possible. Look at LuPone in GYPSY. Trashed off-B'way; hailed as one of the great stage performances only months later. Not that I'm saying this would have been one of the stage greats, but it certainly would have improved. The performances were very good. It's the direction that really brought it down.

Sad.

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: American Buffalo closed#3

Posted: 11/24/08 at 2:02pm

LuPone wasn't trashed when she did the part at Encores! No, Brantley didn't like it at the time, but all the others were pretty much raving about her.

BroadwayEd

[ColorTheHours048]

re: American Buffalo closed#4

Posted: 11/24/08 at 2:07pm

Well then I stand corrected. Point is, I think if they were given time to rise above the horrendous direction, they would've been great.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

re: American Buffalo closed#5

Posted: 11/24/08 at 4:36pm

I think its disgusting the way the producer treated the company with his 'oh I'll see how I feel after the show on Sunday' attitude to keeping 20 or 30 people in work or not.
Only in America
Updated On: 11/24/08 at 04:36 PM

[Mr Roxy]

re: American Buffalo closed#6

Posted: 11/24/08 at 5:49pm

It did not close due to the recession

It got poor reviews & it was mamets weakest play. The high ticket prices for it did not help either.

Poster Emeritus

[sondheimgeek]

re: American Buffalo closed#7

Posted: 11/24/08 at 5:58pm

Well, not that nationality has anything to do with it's closing...

And it's a shame that this closed. I'd been dying to see it even with its awful reviews.

"Light the candles! Get the ice out! Roll the rug up, it's today!"

[Weez]

re: American Buffalo closed#8

Posted: 11/24/08 at 5:59pm

I feel sad for everybody involved that it has closed so unceremoniously.

Good to see I'm not the only one getting fed up with random outbursts of Yankophobia...

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

[sondheimgeek]

re: American Buffalo closed#9

Posted: 11/24/08 at 6:08pm

Must be someone who could be respectable but has had too many drinks and egotistical errors to think straight.

"Light the candles! Get the ice out! Roll the rug up, it's today!"

[MamasDoin'Fine]

re: American Buffalo closed#10

Posted: 11/24/08 at 6:27pm

My first experience of a Mamet play was this Broadway production from 1983 with Al Pachino.
It played the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End for just 4 weeks and to get a ticket was a real feat.
It was nearly 4hrs long and I remember every single second from curtain up till curtain down.

[RentBoy86]

re: American Buffalo closed#11

Posted: 11/24/08 at 9:51pm

Random. Not even front page of BWW.

[sondheimgeek]

re: American Buffalo closed#12

Posted: 11/24/08 at 10:09pm

Yes, I'm very surprised it hasn't gotten more attention. Oh well...

"Light the candles! Get the ice out! Roll the rug up, it's today!"

[Mildred Plotka]

re: American Buffalo closed#13

Posted: 11/24/08 at 10:36pm

I enjoy visiting the boards here, but I have become so tired of BWW's lazy reporting that I don't even bother to look on the front page anymore. Go to Playbill.com: they're always right AND they proof their articles before posting.

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"