Broadway Run Limit

I don't think Broadway will get their version of FDR. But you never know. Enough people might hate Phantom for it to happen.

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As long as its still making money....i dont this it would close enless the producers agree it should

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One never knows, new rules all the time...

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Thanks Margo. You are the voice of reason.

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It must've been interesting that in The Fantasticks they were trying to remember a time in September fifty years ago by the time it closed. It was off-broadway but there's a good example of show that managed to last for nearly half a century and only closed due to 9/11. When there's money to be had the show must go on!

I'm pretty sure it closed due to financial issues which was a deal with most shows following 9/11.

As far as saying 50, I thought it was a reasonable hyperbole, if I wanted an exact number I probably would've looked up the dates.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - ``Try to remember' a time when the musical ``The Fantasticks' wasn't playing in Greenwich Village. If you're under 40, you can't.

But the longest-running musical has posted a closing notice for Jan. 6, 2002, the producer said on Wednesday.

Producer Lore Noto said that ``dwindling grosses with escalating costs decided the issue for us.'

Updated On: 1/10/06 at 07:03 AM

Well, I'm contradicting the fact that the reason for closing was due to the fact the building that housed the theatre was sold. It was due to financial reasons, it closed 3 months after 9/11 which would suggest its final decline in ticket sales was due to 9/11.

Here is a segment from a Playbill article on the Fantasticks closing:

By late July 2001, however, dire warnings were already emerging from producer Lore Noto and his son, Tony Noto, who began advertising "last weeks" for the show. The closing notice wan't so much the result of low grosses or even the overall national economic slump. Producer Noto made clear that real estate was the main culprit. The Sullivan Street Playhouse is on the desirably Village-y Sullivan Street, and the building's new landlord noticed that real estate prices were escalating precipitously. As such, a flat-lining box office killed a show that four decades of television, movies, rock concerts, computers and virtual reality could not.

In a statement released Sept. 4, the elder Noto said of the landlord, "The new purchasers of the building that houses the Sullivan Street Theater, had certain plans in regards to us, and we felt that we couldn't accommodate them. We came to an amicable agreement and let them have the building for their purposes. We felt we had to be honest and fair to our cast and crew who have supported the show for these many years."

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