Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/18- Page 3

[newintown]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 9:24am

The idea that shows should run forever is indicative of a tiny imagination.

Chicago is, at this point, little more than a theme park show for non-English speaking tourists or people who can't stand to watch something they haven't already seen.

Give me a Broadway alive with new work, good or bad. These dusty old tired pieces of commerce are for the birds.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 9:27am

But will that audience get to Godspell in time?

While they do have a relatively low running cost, according to Davenport, I would imagine it still puts them somewhere in the ballpark of having barely scraped by this past week, if they even did. It would indeed be a very low budget show that can be meeting its weekly nut and paying back the investors at not even 40% of its gross potential.

Updated On: 12/20/11 at 09:27 AM

[thismyshow]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 9:43am

I believe so, look at Lombardi in that same theater it made way less a week then godspell and lasted like 8 months...

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 9:47am

LOMBARDI had a smaller cast and didn't have to pay an orchestra.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 11:04am

'Maybe you should close. Not liking a production doesn't justify wanting it to close if it's doing well. That was a pretty mean spirited post.'

Blaxx telling somebody that they are mean spirited because of what they post.....Blaxx, really? the b***h of the board. Brilliant.

'Give me a Broadway alive with new work, good or bad. These dusty old tired pieces of commerce are for the birds.'

Say's the man who bashes nearly ever new show that opens, wow.

[newintown]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 11:14am

Oh, songanddance, I see you're in one of your bitchy moods.

To refresh your astonishingly limited memory, I'll remind you that, in the past year or so, I liked Book of Mormon, The Submission, Scottsboro Boys, The Divine Sister, Jerusalem, The Other Place, War Horse, and Sister Act (slight reservations on that last one).

But tiny minds always choose to remember only what they want to remember, usually in order to back up an extremely limited world-view...

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 12:03pm

"Chicago" will have its ups and downs. It has survived thru tought times. It has surpassed countless plays and musicals over a 15 year period. What the present to the audience has value and entertainment. What Newintown said about the composition of the audience is pure drivel. I have my doubts he has even seen the show. Speaking for myself, I can't wait to see it again in March 2012. from RC in Austin, Texas... a FAN of Patti LuPone AND Chicago

[newintown]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 12:27pm

"What Newintown said about the composition of the audience is pure drivel. I have my doubts he has even seen the show."

You lose.

[fingerlakessinger]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 1:14pm

Why does he lose? A lot of people enjoy Chicago, even now. So why should it close? Yes, it's grosses are not that good, but the show has always been able to pull itself back up (whether with marketing or casting.) Just because YOU don't like it does not mean it should close.

[newintown]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 1:16pm

Sometimes it's like working in a special needs kindergarten here.

"You lose" was a response to the FANatic's crazy theory that I have never seen the show.

I thought that was clear, though...

[fingerlakessinger]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 1:38pm

Very well...however my post is still relevant.

[binau]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 3:55pm

I love Chicago and I have had a great time seeing this production in the past but when I saw this on a low-energy half-empty Thursday Matinee I did think that the audience might have been better off spending their money on a new, fresh show....maybe transferring to the Booth (which I agree with the others who said it would be quite unfortunate if this unusual theatre was tied up for years...I feel like it is part of the success of shows like NEXT TO NORMAL, which won't have that opportunity anymore..) will give the show some more life (and maybe I caught it on an off day, but "tired" is definitely a word that has been associated with this revival quite frequently on this forum).

[Tom5]

Posted: 12/20/11 at 4:54pm

Happy to see audiences have connected with "Seminar" and it is doing good business. Has a newish, original story, it's funny with excellent acting and Alan Rickman in the lead.