Posted: 5/10/23 at 5:52pm
If the closing is official, I imagine we should be getting a press release and confirmation from reliable sources around 7:30.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 5:55pm
Wow! Here we go!
Posted: 5/10/23 at 6:00pm
Broadway Flash said: "Actually, he’s not doing very well. Phantom has closed on Broadway, Bad Cinderella is an embarrassment, and he just lost a kid."
He’s the most successful living musical theater composer. Maybe most successful musical theater composer, period. He is likely worth over a billion dollars. His music is known worldwide. He was asked to write a song for the king’s coronation. Phantom closed after almost four decades.
Whatever personal tragedies or professional setbacks he’s faced, he is, over all, an immensely successful man.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 6:08pm
Dylan Smith4 said: "Wow! Here we go!"
I feel sorry that the cast found out about this through this leak, but wasn't the same with the London Cast?
This photo is from today's matinee, so sad to see it this empty
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Updated On: 5/10/23 at 06:08 PM
Posted: 5/10/23 at 6:09pm
pablitonizer said: "Dylan Smith4 said: "Wow! Here we go!"
I feel sorry that the cast found out about this through this leak, but wasn't the same with the London Cast?"
Pretty much yep!
Posted: 5/10/23 at 6:55pm
Lot666 said:
This sort of smug, sweeping statement just makes you sound like a douchebag because it's obviously untrue. I've seen it once and would like to see it again, and I know for a fact that I'm not alone.
You aren't alone at all. My 12 year old twin neices convinced me to go tonight with them (pray for me ha)! They are very on theme with their pink and black outfits tho.
Love your screen name BTW. In 50 years someone will stumble on this time capsule of a website and appreciate the history of your name. 
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:03pm
I do love when people who were so needlessly argumentative and defensive, finally have to eat some humble pie. The stans better run and see this while it still exists; midnight is nearly upon thee!
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:10pm
why is this such a shock to people that its going to close? we knew from the press day with that spray can the future of the show
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:16pm
Wow....just caught up on last night's stream. I have no words on how awful that was...as an Act II opener, as a prayer to sell tickets, as.....anything. Ouch.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:26pm
dramamama611 said: "Wow....just caught up on last night's stream. I have no words on how awful that was...as an Act II opener, as a prayer to sell tickets, as.....anything. Ouch."
^^^This right here is pretty much how I would describe that horrendous livestream^^^
Also, there is no way the footage was LIVE. For that quality, it was definitely pre-recorded.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:30pm
should have never stepped foot on Broadway without some serious revisions.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:35pm
They’ll send out a non-Union tour and make their money back.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:42pm
So which Cinderella gets the closing performance? Isn’t Savy the Sunday Cinderella?
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:51pm
Obviously it wasn't a good show and I had no interest in seeing it. But I did feel like the vitriol was a little unnecessarily mean sometimes. It'll probably still be an ok performer in the amateur world down the road.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 7:56pm
This will be the first time Broadway will be without an ALW show in decades.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 8:01pm
I am still more upset by Phantom closing than this.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 8:19pm
Money doesn’t necessarily mean someone is doing very well. If that was the case, you wouldn’t see rich people dying of drug overdoses or needing rehab and therapy
Posted: 5/10/23 at 8:25pm
That live stream and host were the cringiest thing I’ve seen in a long time
Posted: 5/10/23 at 8:51pm
With 8.7K viewers and less than 200 likes, that was a waste of a Hail Mary pass.
The lights looked pretty, though.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 9:32pm
BETTY22 said: "This will be the first time Broadway will be without an ALW show in decades."
I lost my bet with myself. I figured ALW would keep the show running just long enough for the inevitable Phantom revival, with a reduced orchestra/cast a la the West End, to be announced.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 9:55pm
Dylan Smith4 said: "dramamama611 said: "Wow....just caught up on last night's stream. I have no words on how awful that was...as an Act II opener, as a prayer to sell tickets, as.....anything. Ouch."
^^^This right here is pretty much how I would describe that horrendous livestream^^^
Also, there is no way the footage was LIVE. For that quality, it was definitely pre-recorded."
It definitely was; it was a YouTube "premiere," which is a feature that allows for a pre-recorded video to be released at a scheduled time. At the scheduled time, the video starts playing with no way to fast forward or skip ahead. Then, after the "premiere" it's just treated as a normal upload. Allows for the same feeling as a stream but a lot more control.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 10:52pm
Assuming my calculations are correct, June 5 will be the first time that Lloyd Webber will not have at least one currently-running Broadway musical in 15,975 days. Wow.
Posted: 5/10/23 at 11:17pm
Posted: 5/10/23 at 11:30pm
msmp said: "BETTY22 said: "This will be the first time Broadway will be without an ALW show in decades."
I lost my bet with myself. I figured ALW would keep the show running just long enough for the inevitable Phantom revival, with a reduced orchestra/cast a la the West End, to be announced."
It was reported 2-3 weeks ago that ALW wanted to close it and that it was Ms. Schwartzman (who can buy and sell ALW many times over with just the cashflow from her CRT) who wanted to keep it open and "remarket" it. Success is a tough thing to wrap one's head around. Trying and failing, even after a lifetime of success, is just as painful. In fact it is likely even more painful.
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