BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON- Coming to Broadway?

Okay, first it was pretty unanimous that the show was not going to transfer. Next, it started gaining notice around the community, and has extended a full 2 months past it's original planned closing. Then, it won all those awards (Off Broadway awards, mostly, but still something of note), and now people on this message board are claiming it's being planned to transfer. i've heard every story from it being the reason "A Little Night Music" is closing to it wanting the Booth. does anyone have the straight story on this? Personally, i'd love to see this show get another chance to wow audiences: it's the perfect mix between the Spring Awakening/ american Idiot sound, the Urinetown/ Title of Show tounge in cheek humor, and the overall feeling of a show which truly deserves to be produced.

It's "pretty unanimous" that it should transfer? Amongst whom? I think its a wonderful OFF B'way show, and would like to see it move to a long-term house (like New World Stages) but I don't think it could sell a bway house for any length of time.

There is no "story" at this point--only speculation. And they would NEVER close ALNM for another show. Why would they close a show that is pulling in HUGE audiences for the possiblity of another show. They are closing it because whenever CZJ is on vacation or sick, they ticket buyers are non existent. they feel without a Hollywood name, that they will have no interest. (I'm guessing advance sales after CZJ were dismal-- if they were ever on sale.)

And the show is on TDF pretty frequently, so it's not like it's sold out (at least in advance) every night....and it's a pretty small theater that houses it now. Just because a show is selling well, doesn't make it a Broadway Show.

For the record: I loved the show. Will be seeing it a second time before it closes. I thought it was the best new musical of the season -- on or off b'way.

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This show screams Off-Broadway & it would be a huge mistake for everyone involved.

Updated On: 5/27/10 at 10:52 AM

There no such thing as Off-Broadway now. Any show making any splash wants to go to Broadway because it's the only way to have a chance at extended life. The marketing a Broadway production can receive compared to Off-Broadway (the budget alone, national attention possible from talk shows and the Tonys, magazines, etc.) is what is truly desired. And in recent years there have been several shows that once were too "Off-Broadway show" to come to the main stem, but they wanted the big shot, with its big marketing campaign.

IN THE HEIGHTS wasn't selling out Off-Broadway. It needed all the attention Broadway can provide. NEXT TO NORMAL seemed very, very risky. And FELA - whose fate remains to be seen - also seemed like a risky venture.

Belongs off. Look what happened to TOS.
Bloody is intimate with the junk hanging off of the walls of the Public. Keep it running off.

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Hard to see the show having its same slightly woolly appeal in a bigger house. Broadway would expose flaws that can be overlooked in the infectious heat of the Off-B'way moment in its current setting. Most significantly, I would hate to see this inspired and largely accurate if incomplete stab at American Social History held up to more rigorous academic or historiographical standards, against which it would not fare well. I get it: it's art, more precisely fun art and not scholarship. But they bring up Mr. Jackson for discussion, so there are people out there who are going to complain about the substance of the discussion. The show effectively delivers the political class warfare and abandonment/genocide of Native tribes themes of Jackson's impact for those who were sleeping or listening to "Rent" on headphones during 11th grade history class. But put it on Broadway and you're inviting the Big Boys (and Girls) from NYU, Columbia, etc. to the pissing contest. The folks in the ruffled collars, if you will. It's a downtown show. Put it on B'way, and "Just Plain Folks" will scratch their heads and wish they'd paid the premium for "Lion King", and the Swells will quibble about details and/or lack of polish

It appears that investors are being sought for a possible Broadway transfer. The article doesn't really say anything else new- except that options for a life outside of this run are being looked into, particularly Broadway.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140054-EXCLUSIVE-Bloody-Bloody-Andrew-Jackson-May-Rock-Broadway-

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