Annie Is Papering

Where? I'm not seeing this on the usual suspects you normally discuss. PM me.

Mike Costa said: "It seems they really misread the market  by charging a $600 weekend top ticket price for a non-Equity Tour  of Annie playing in Brooklyn when an Equity Production just played Broadway two years ago with actual stars being paid a large salaries.

Such greed.

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$600, really? Who in their right mind would spend that kind of money on Annie?

They really did not think this out. The theater is immense, it is off the beaten track and may not be the safest place to go at night. Not a good formula for success. Charnin needs to stop all Annie revivals for at least 10 years to give the public time to want to see it again

The theater is about 1/2 the size of Radio City.

Updated On: 12/12/15 at 12:19 AM

The theater is in a high-crime area with a high number of shootings, robberies and murders over the last 30 day period (scroll to the Beverly Road/Flatbush Ave part of the map at http://spotcrime.com/ny/brooklyn)  There was even a shooting on the same block as the theater within the past 30 days. 

It is great for a concert but not for a Broadway show especially until they do something about the crime problem.

After reading this thread, I went to check on Ticketmaster, because I had bought tickets for a Sunday matinee for my grandson.  The performance, as well as the entire second week, has been cancelled!.  No notice from Ticketmaster.  Oh well.

Wrong re the crime aspect. Once it gets dark, watch out.  They will take a major financial bath on this. I wondered why they renovated the theater. Yes it is beautiful and I am glad they did. It is a huge white elephant and will continue to be until the neighborhood turns around. I do not see that happening any time soon.

The theater owners should either have paid security personnel in and around the theater  to patrol. This may wind up as a big mistake on the part of those who renovated the theater. The crime aspects trumps everything. No matter what goes in there, unless you feel safe you are not going.

even if you ignore safety concerns, this venue is not well located to the subway and is a pricey taxi ride, which is how I think most of the target audience would travel. We can all understand how iconic buildings are the foundation of revitalization, but this is no carbon copy of BAM Harvey.

I could be wrong but the engagement may have been shortened . I thought it ran until right before New Year's Now it ends a few days before Christmas

Can anyone confirm this , one way or the other?

I, for one, will be skipping this. I know in the minority on this, but I thought the most recent revival was stellar. I would like to keep that fresh in my mind.

Better off going to view the theater when they have an open house during the day. Safer at this point and you just go for the theater which is well worth it

Another theater worth visiting is Rev Ike's old haunt  the old Loews 175 th Street. Looks like it did on opening day even down to the pipe organ. Still has services on weekends but smartly they rent it out for concerts. It was also featured in an episode or two of Smash.