Beauty out Mermaid in — Page 4

"Is the guy who's been phoning in his performances as the Beast still with the show? Just curious."

Steve Blanchard...and yes, he is still with the show.

Tarzan isn't doing that bad it is giving pretty strong grosses for the 2 hard weeks of Broadway so far.

Also the Richard Rodgers is going to have toruble getting any show into that theatre so Tazran will be there for a while.

To guarantee a hit, they're renaming some of the Mermaid songs to:

Defying Aquaty
And I am (not) Telling You
The Bitch of the Ocean
Shells 10, Fins 3
You Can't Stop My Feet

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Updated On: 1/17/07 at 08:46 PM

Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is Broadway’s longest running American musical and the 6th longest running show of all time.


I thought ACL was still the longest running american show?

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Craig, that was hilarious.

Sad to see my first Broadway show go, but something new needs to come.

I am kind of surprised that TLM casting has yet to be announced and yet they have announced EVERYTHING else(don't yell at me...i know there are 30000000 threads on it)


I'm definitely mourning Beauty and the Beast
although I am excited for TLM

What was run down about it? I mean even four years ago, mind you four years ago when i last saw it, the sets squeaked unbelivabley and shook as they entered stage, the effects were poor and lacking, i was not sitting in a bad sight line seat, and saw backstage no fewer than three times. Dont get me wrong its sad to see actors out of work, but still, once "Beauty was decreased", it was not the same show.

doube post.

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Updated On: 1/17/07 at 09:39 PM

Wow...this was my very first show. I'm glad I'm not the only one who was shocked to see this.

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Took my niece to it for her first show when she was six.Liked it better than I thought I would.
My horrible ex girlfriend met us (niece and her parents) afterwards for dinner.
Two years later my niece and I were coming home from the Yankee game, We passed the ex girlfriends stop and I said "Thats Janet's stop." "Why didn't you marry her?" she asked me. "Because Uncle Richie was a very lucky man." The guy across from me started cracking up.

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It doesn't look like anything yet.

Zeitoujo

That seems like a rather ignorant statement to make. Ignorant in the basic definition - NOT as a slam or personal attack. But since there isn't a set cast, a day of rehearsal complete, etc - there's no way to say that it looks like anything...

For me, the suprising thing is not so much that BatB closing (which I am actually a bit sad for nostalgic reasons) but that they are closing to to make way for Little Mermaid. NOT because Little Mermaid shouldn't be on Broadway or anything like that. But because given the choice between BatB and Tarzan - I'd personally choose to close Tarzan.

BatB is a much more accessible show and has been a Broadway staple (regardless of what some might thing) for 13 years. I don't see that kind of life in Tarzan. I *could* see at least a few more years of BatB though.

That being said, and although it's been joked about. I *could* easily see in 5-10 or 15 years Disney bringing BatB back to Broadway for a limited run. It would fall in line with their "from the vault" marketing technique with DVDs. And if a theater wasn't available, they could do a limited run at Radio City or elsewhere and bring it back with a large cast, etc.

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