Anyone think Cher will be at the last Cher Show on Sunday?

I hope so! I’ll be there. Hoping to see Bob Mackie as well and perhaps some other celebs. Her Las Vegas residency doesn’t start again for a few day, August 21. I’m wondering if the closing date was selected so as not to clash with her LV concert and she could attend the show.

Bettyboy72 said: "I honestly don’t think she will be there. If she were, I don’t know if she would go on stage and pull focus from the cast. A few cast members posted gifts and cards she gave them for closing, which leads me to believe she’s not coming. If she is there, I wonder if she would just hang backstage.

I also don’t think she really likes the show. I think she loves the cast to the heavens, loves their work and has befriended some. However I think she realized far to late in the process that trying to put her life on stage was not what she expected and she didn’t like it. She’s been rather mum the whole time the show struggled to fill seats. That speaks volumes. "

Yeah, I guess her full-hour THE CHER SHOW infomercial on April 15, 2019 on the Jimmy Fallon show, where she also performed several times with the cast was her way of keeping mum.

I'd like a bit more of the tea behind Cher's involvement in the creation, once it closes and people feel freer to talk. It seems in every interview I've heard, there's another little nugget of how she would be far more involved (and in some unorthodox ways) since it was her life: she requests a rewrite which required restaging on the *day of Opening*(!), during previews she sent in her personal makeup artist to overhaul SJB's wig and makeup design. Fascinated by these.

I think the backstory how these shows are altered by the rights holders, whether the namesakes or the surviving family, is undertold. And on some other shows, I know some of the show's weaknesses were baked in by such constrictions.

quizking101 said: "^ This

Literally, what other Broadway show has ever had the ability to take up more than 10 minutes of late-night television, let alone a whole hour?

The only other person who gives decent airtime to Broadway shows in that slot is Seth Meyers"

Stephen Colbert has been pretty good with inviting Broadway actors to come and perform/be interviewed. He's had both leads from Great Comet, half the cast of Hamilton (including Philippa Soo promoting Amelie), Ben Platt (with a performance of For Forever), and a performance from the cast of American Psycho. He had Santino Fontana on recently, too, to talk about Tootsie.

MollyJeanneMusic said: "quizking101 said: "^ This

Literally, what other Broadway show has ever had the ability to take up more than 10 minutes of late-night television, let alone a whole hour?

The only other person who gives decent airtime to Broadway shows in that slot is Seth Meyers"

Stephen Colbert has been pretty good with inviting Broadway actors to come and perform/be interviewed. He's had both leads from Great Comet, half the cast of Hamilton (including Philippa Soo promoting Amelie), Ben Platt (with a performance of For Forever), and a performance from the cast of American Psycho. He had Santino Fontana on recently, too, to talk about Tootsie."

This is true. How I could be remiss about that?

Anyone find it interesting that the tony award performance from CHER isn't up on youtube anymore or the link to it isn't available on broadwayworld? every other performance from the tony's is up.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay/VIDEO-The-Cast-Of-THE-CHER-SHOW-Performs-Believe-at-the-TONY-AWARDS-20190610

no, but what is disappointing is many recent tony broadcasts are not officially on youtube. for instance, many acceptance speeches from this year are already taken down, and i would love to see ariel stachels speech again from last year, but it doesnt exist on the internet.

do not call that bitching. do not send me somewhere i can purchase the tony awards. everyone has been paid who worked on the broadcast. do you work for apple?

BrodyFosse123 said: "rg7759 said: "no, but what is disappointing is many recent tony broadcasts are not officially on youtube. for instance, many acceptance speeches from this year are already taken down, and i would love to see ariel stachels speech again from last year, but it doesnt exist on the internet."

Geez Louise! The constant bitching and whining is exhaustive.

And yet, you do more if it than anybody.

"and the nice run it had"

Is that some kind of code for having lost a ton of money? 296 performances is not a nice run, not for a big, lavish Broadway musical, jukebox or otherwise.