Broadway's Life of Pi Sets Early Closing Date, Will Tour in 2024

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 2:36pm

https://www.playbill.com/article/broadways-life-of-pi-sets-early-closing-date-will-tour-in-2024


Broadway's Life of Pi has set an early closing date, with its final performance now scheduled for July 23 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The West End transfer had previously been scheduled to play through September 3.

The move makes the production potentially the Main Stem's first post-Tonys casualty.

Updated On: 6/20/23 at 02:36 PM

[Robbie516]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 2:39pm

Now I think Gutenberg will be announced ….I think this was the delay

[blaxx]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 2:41pm

Awful script, worse than the film.

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 2:48pm

blaxx said: "Awful script, worse than the film."

Just saw it last week. Everything involving the puppets (design, direction, puppeteers) was INCREDIBLE. But it's actually a VERY dark story and it seemed like the creators knew that, but purposefully didn't want the audience to think about it too hard. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 2:52pm

Like “Bad Cinderella”, a script that needed to be worked on yet they refused to make the necessary changes, knowing what the issues were in London before transferring here. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 2:57pm

I didn’t know this was a limited run to begin with. 

Nevertheless, it must be tough to be the first post-Tonys casualty. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 3:10pm

The first post-Tony Awards casualty.

[KKeller6]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 3:36pm

EDSOSLO858 said: "I didn’t know this was a limited run to begin with"

 

it wasn't. 

 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 6/20/23 at 6:17pm

Disappointing as this was one of my favorite things this season, but they've been struggling this whole time so it's not really unexpected.  I wonder how much they'll have to scale down some of the effects for tour.

[BETTY22]

Posted: 6/21/23 at 8:31am

After it's big win in London I was expecting so much more. Visually great but.......

[A.J.]

Posted: 6/21/23 at 8:58am

Jordan Catalano said: "Like “Bad Cinderella”, a script that needed to be worked on yet they refused to make the necessary changes, knowing what the issues were in London before transferring here."

Unless they’ve made changes since Toronto, The Shark is Broken will continue this trend. 
 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 6/23/23 at 9:24am

I'm very curious as to how the tour will work...would stages have to be completely re-worked, or can they use a platform for some of those more tricky elements? 

 

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Like when Pi goes down into those areas in the stage...would that be easy to recreate on different tour stages?

 

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 6/23/23 at 11:21am

Some impressive visual moments, but that damn script was an absolute slog to endure.

[Islander_fan]

Posted: 6/23/23 at 11:23am

hearthemsing22 said: "I'm very curious as to how the tour will work...would stages have to be completely re-worked, or can they use a platform for some of those more tricky elements?

 

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Like when Pi goes down into those areas in the stage...would that be easy to recreate on different tour stages?

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It’s about to go on tour in the UK. So, I think that it’s safe to say that what ever they did there to make it able to tour, they’ll do the same for the North American tour. 

[yyys]

Posted: 6/23/23 at 11:25am

Don't think that's complicated. 

hearthemsing22 said: "I'm very curious as to how the tour will work...would stages have to be completely re-worked, or can they use a platform for some of those more tricky elements?

 

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Like when Pi goes down into those areas in the stage...would that be easy to recreate on different tour stages?

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