Breaking News: ROCKY to Close on Broadway in August — Page 3

And how can anyone NOT be looking forward to seeing ON THE TOWN?!?

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"Now all the Rocky haters can lick their chops, pat themselves on the back and hoist a drink over a job well done. They can than latch on to another show they deem not worthy of Broadway that should close".

Roxy, hopefully someday you will gain the wisdom to understand that if someone didn't like a show you loved, they're not a hater, they just have a different opinion about a piece of theater. Happens every day, actually.

And even though you always talk about how many comps you get, instead of paying for the product when you can't get a comp, you're now talking about stealing it. Yes, the word is stealing. That will certainly help shows you like be more successful. It's like a person tired of the increasing price of scotch saying he will no longer buy it but instead start knocking over liquor stores.

In any event, we are all saddened by your loss. Please let us know if you will be Sitting Shiva. I'd like to stop by, express my condolences and maybe drop off a Honey Cake or some Kugel.

If people love a show and it plays for months, has an easy rush, great TDF location and primo Audience Rewards redemptions, you certainly had enough opportunities to see it on the cheap until you got sick of it.

A lot of people trashed this in previews, though, so that would seem to remove the onus from critics. Gentleman's Guide was a critic's darling, and no one went to that until it won the Tony, and Mamma Mia and Wicked were not critic's favorites and they are still there.

So, there seem to be a flaw in your thesis.

The show was about a fighter hence the nose song. Did you expect Oh What A Beautiful Morning?

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I hurt my eye, I hurt my ear, it hurts here, here and here….

Yeah shows with songs that have "silly" titles are never any good and you should judge them only on that. Like in that one ahow where that lady sang about Jerry liking her corn.

When did I eat corn?!

^^^ Not according to Lord Brantley!

Rocky is a really wonderful show with an amazing and extremely talented cast!! It and they deserved better. Sylvester Stallone should have promoted it more as it is his baby. He hasn't been there since it opened in March. Andy Karl also should have won the Tony. He is so much better than Neil Patrick Harris and he deserved to win. He is phenomenal in the role!!! I have seen the show 25 times and will be going even more now! And to answer an earlier post, Andy has missed only three shows.

Shame and a very disappointing year for Stage Ents. Rocky should have opened in London after Germany, I think the show could really picked up more buzz in Londkn rather than Broadway.

To be honest as amazing as the last 20min was the rest of the show was ok at best, IMO. Weak score and just seemed to drag up until the fight.

Cats won't come over, if at all, unless the Palladium version in London extends and is a big hit. Cameron would also have to reinvest. He has granted 12weeks but any longer and he will want to get involved and probably produce the Broadway run which could take years as he is planning Miss Saigon on Broadway, the film, Barnum on tour and back...

Winter Garden will have a show for the Autumn I am sure. Finding Neverland would be a good fit I think if it's ever going to try and run on a Broadway stage

I have seen pretty much everything on Broadway and no i am not dating a cast member. i really enjoy the show plus it is on tdf all the time. Theater is my hobby. I have seen other shows I loved several times also and more than I have seen Rocky. Rocky isn't going to be around long enough for me to see it as many times as I saw Spring Awakening as that show lasted 2 1/2 years. I saw the Boy from Oz, Rent, Altar Boys, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Jersey Boys, Next to Normal, American Idiot and Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway numerous times. There might have been others, but these are the ones I can recall at the moment.

It's no secret that I found Rocky the Musical to be an ultra-mediocrity, the kind of inspiration-free desperate grab to milk more cash out of an existing product that I truly loathe. This was no adaptation - it was taking the screenplay as was, adding third-tier redundant songs, and throwing it on stage, masking the emptiness with sequins, projections, video screens, and a theatrical gimmick along the lines of a chandelier or helicopter - the kind of gimmick that matters more than the actual show to the mouth-breathing, mind-numbed tourists filling the theatre. Anything actually interesting in the movie was actually ironed out into a flat, easy to digest wafer of bland familiarity.

In spite of all that, I wish everyone concerned good luck in finding a better next job.

About the nose song - in theory (apart from the context of this particular story), the idea of this song isn't bad - a fighter cataloging his debits and credits. But Rocky is an inarticulate character, as Hackasaurus_Rex pointed out. So is Adrian. Their silence in the movie is worlds more profound than any trite rhymes Lynn Ahrens can bring up (“I got ten sore knuckles and a ringin’ ear. / I got a bruise over here and here and…over here”). Their characters are actually diminished, not expanded, by adding words.

Updated On: 7/16/14 at 08:35 AM

See it and screw the naysayers .

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