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BROADWAY CLOSINGS - can you call it? What's next to go?
Joined: 12/31/69
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#50
Posted: 5/17/11 at 7:55amPercentages for Baby It's you increase slowly and boy---there are commercials everywhere for it. I don't think it will suffer anytime through the summer...
Leading Actor Joined: 5/17/11
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#51
Posted: 5/17/11 at 10:18amas of now the advance for Baby its You is very small. But things could turn around, they do have a shrewd marketing team.
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#52
Posted: 5/17/11 at 3:32pmBaby It's You & Million Dollar Quartet will be closed by Labor Day.
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#53
Posted: 5/17/11 at 4:27pm
^I agree with that
With How to Succeed, The Addams Family, Priscilla and Billy Elliot will be in the annual January cull?
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#54
Posted: 5/17/11 at 5:01pmHow to Succeed is doing fine, bringing nearly a million a week. As for Jan. 2012 closings: Addams Family - yes, Priscilla - possibly, Billy Elliot - no. I'd give Billy until Jan. 2013. others for Jan. 2012 - Catch Me If You Can, Memphis & Rock of Ages.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#55
Posted: 5/17/11 at 5:03pmthere is no way the ROA is going to close before the movie comes out with all of those stars. No way...
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#56
Posted: 5/17/11 at 5:23pmI think Billy Elliot will stick around for a while. Look how long it's been playing in the west end
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#57
Posted: 5/17/11 at 5:25pmI don't know how Baby, It's You is hanging on with these numbers.
Leading Actor Joined: 5/17/11
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#58
Posted: 5/17/11 at 5:31pmas I said in another thread, Baby its You, has Warner Bros, as one of its main producers. That is alot of money, so some can be thrown away without too much problem. The questions are how much was budgeted and how much are they willing to lose before throwing in the towel?
Joined: 12/31/69
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#59
Posted: 5/17/11 at 6:04pm
agreed on ROA.
The movie will fuel more for the stage version and vice versa.
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#60
Posted: 5/17/11 at 6:13pmHow to Succeed will definitly be done when they lose Daniel Radcliffe, it happened last year with Promises, Promises. I can't see it run without a huge celebrity. Addams Family will close in like October. It won't last till 2012.
Joined: 12/31/69
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#61
Posted: 5/18/11 at 7:29pm
Really? I think Addams Family will get a nice boost through the summer with Brooke SHields and of course...it will be the holiday thing to do for Halloween Thanksgiving and Christmas.
maybe January 2012.
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#62
Posted: 5/18/11 at 8:56pmI really hope Catch Me If You Can will be around past next year, I saw that show last week and it really was phenomenal.
Joined: 12/31/69
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#63
Posted: 5/30/11 at 4:21pm^ chances seem slim. Let's see after Tony's.
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/04
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#64
Posted: 5/30/11 at 5:00pmI agree Catch Me If you can was amazing and very unappreciated. I am hoping it is around for a awhile. Saw Priscilla this weekend and had a lot of fun with that as well. Would be interesting to see How to Succeed last as well and see a replacement for Radcliffe
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#65
Posted: 5/30/11 at 5:04pmIf Sister Act doesn't pick up anything come Tony time, I think the momentum will decrease. It's selling well now, but that's a hard theatre to fill.
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#66
Posted: 5/31/11 at 2:08am
Do you all think Sister Act will become the Mary Poppins of this year? just keeps going... and going... and going...
I predict Priscilla and Baby, its you will close around labor day and Mary Poppins around January 2012 along with ROA and Memphis.
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#67
Posted: 5/31/11 at 3:05amDo you really think Memphis will close so soon? It has been consistently pulling in great numbers. Can't see it going anywhere just yet. And indeed, no way Rock of Ages will close before the film is released.
Joined: 12/31/69
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#68
Posted: 6/4/11 at 11:21pm
Rock of AGes will last at Helen Hayes way after the film comes out. Give it another 2 years at least.
Ok- I'm predicting Million Dollar Quartet next.
It can't even get 40% full lately .
And at the Nederlander---that's a tough theatre to fill.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#69
Posted: 6/5/11 at 12:18am
Mary Poppins is safe for now but I think once Disney has a production ready for Broadway and The New Amsterdam e.g. Aladdin or one of the various projects in development, Poppins will close, it's has had an great run so far.
Joined: 12/31/69
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#70
Posted: 6/7/11 at 11:49pm
And as predicted.....
good job folks!
and MDQ will live strong off-broadway.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/151580-Broadways-Million-Dollar-Quartet-Will-Close-June-12-and-Return-Off-Broadway-in-July
so...what's next?
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#71
Posted: 6/8/11 at 12:25amI think Mary Poppins will still stay afloat for a year or two more. If The Addams Family doesn't start selling better I could see it closing in January 2012 with Aladdin opening there, or perhaps one of their other projects.
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#72
Posted: 6/8/11 at 12:44am^ I hope Mary Poppind sticks around. I think it's a great show. It wouldn't surpirse me though if, like you said, they close it to make room for a new show. That's what they did with Beauty and the Beast.
Stand-by Joined: 6/2/08
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#73
Posted: 6/9/11 at 2:03ambwayphreak - are you being facetious? about poppins, i mean. i thought it was one of the worst shows i've seen in my decades of theatre-going & i find it hard to think anyone would enjoy it that much.
BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!#74
Posted: 6/9/11 at 2:06amFor Adams Family enter B. Shields who will be Box Office draw.
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