Assassins returning????
Assassins returning????
#0Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:08pmHas anyone heard that Assassins is coming back in '07?
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#1re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:09pmWell where did you hear that for starters?
#2re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:10pmI heard it last week at a mixer off broadway.
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#3re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:13pmI just hope it won't turn into another Scarlet Pimpernel. Opening and closing all the time. It was a fabulous production, just let it be. Revive it in 15 years.
wickedassassin
Swing Joined: 5/1/05
#4re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:17pmI heard that as well!!! Could it be? If so, I'm sure the critics will be RAVING!
#5re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:19pm
How exciting! Missing it was a huge mistake.
I hope for a 2nd chance.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#6re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:44pm
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???!!!!!!
Someone call Raul Esparza! He needs to be in this if it were to happen!
#7re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:50pmWho was Raul going to be in the first place? And who else was supposed to be in it?
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#8re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:53pmI think Raul was supposed to be Zangara.
#9re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:58pmWasn't it a really small role, though?
#10re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:01pmYea, it is, and doesn't sing much either, his entire assassination is people talking about him and him only singing a lil.
#11re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:05pmBooo. He needs a bigger role.
#12re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:11pm
Yes, Raul Esparza was offered the role of Zangara, but turned it down, according to a recent interview. I have one word for him: WHY?
Anyway, I don't think "Assassins" will be coming back to Broadway for a long time. Although the revival was a critical success, it wasn't very successful commercially.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#13re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:30pm
It did alright for itself- I'm pretty sure it got extended but didn't finish out the extension. And I remember being totally puzzled when it closed; I think it was regularly getting capacity in the 80's and above. Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
Or maybe it was the Republicans...
Chitty
Featured Actor Joined: 4/29/05
#14re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:39pm
no major sales after group bookings = end of show
that's what happened
LouW95
Leading Actor Joined: 9/27/03
#15re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:46pmUnfortunately, Assassains won many awards but did not sell tickets for a longer run. It closed before the end of its brief extension. Give it a rest. We need shows which give us long term jobs --Sondheim revivals dont seem to achieve that goal.
#16re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:54pmThe advanced sales is what killed it. A I believe 98,000 dollar advance sale is not nearly enough to sustain a show like that in comparison to the previous Studio 54 resident, Cabaret, which had I believe a 1.2 million dollar advance.
#17re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:56pm
I knew someone in the cast. According to this person, the show was over its nut each week. True, it had a VERY weak advance but it was making money, just not enough so, despite its Tony win and the actual bump that did give the show, Roundabout decided to close it.
#18re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:58pmI can't imagine the ROUNDABOUT production returning. It was not a box office success. Are you sure some other Off Broadway troup isn't planning on attempting it? The Gallery Players in Brooklyn stage a lot of Sondheim musicals. Maybe they're doing it.
#19re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 10:02pmThat would certainly make much more sense.
#20re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 10:24pmI believe Esparza was officially in the cast before 911 happened and the show was cancelled. As were Douglas Sills and John Dossett.
#21re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/1/05 at 10:27pm
jaohun, is there any way you could get further confirmation. I missed the revival by two days when I moved to town and would love to see that production.
It doesn't seem likely at all though that they would bring back the same production. If it is off-broadway I still really want to see it!
#22re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:36amLouW95 I would prefer to be in the short run of a Sondhiem revival more than anything else.
LouW95
Leading Actor Joined: 9/27/03
#24re: Assassins returning????
Posted: 5/2/05 at 1:07pmBway, I want all of us to have jobs which last. I dont think that is such a bad wish. Sorry if it offends the devout Sondheim fans, but as NPR recently reported, his shows just dont make money or sell tickets on a long term basis. Sure there is a place for short term shows, but I would prefer to see MORE in our community regularly employed.
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