CLOSINGS!

[Corine2]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:14pm

Every good show is closing:
Caroline or Change
Frozen
I Am My Own Wife
The Normal Heart
Sly Fox
STOP THE INSANITY.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:16pm

All shows must come to and end. Wicked will. Hairspray will. The Producers will. Mamma Mia will. Just not for awhile.

The closing of shows leads to more theaters being open, which allows newer shows to come into town. It happens.

[Corine2]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:17pm

I know, but it seems plays are really having a tough time.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:19pm

I've always noticed that plays never stay on for that long. What has been the longest running play?

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:20pm

From this season, or currently on Broadway?

[NBRISBY]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:21pm

Life With Father ran for 3224 performances. It is the longest running non-musical in Bway history.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:21pm

Of all time on Broadway.

[Corine2]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:21pm

Do me a favor. Continue going to Wonderful Town, Avenue Q and Forbidden Broadway. If any of these shows close I will be very upset.
Call 212-239-6200!

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:22pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/72617.html

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:33pm

All shows must come to and end. Wicked will. Hairspray will. The Producers will. Mamma Mia will. Just not for awhile.

Except maybe The Lion King. That looks like it'll run forever.

After the nuclear war, there will only be two things left: cockroaches and The Lion King musical.

[NBRISBY]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:37pm

and Tammy Faye's eyelashes.

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:41pm

Seriously. What stops THE LION KING from running for 100 years? I'm being literal too. Did CATS close because they were tired of it or was it not making money anymore?

[WhatevDude]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:42pm

I sure hope the cockroaches have enough sense to realize that The Lion King represents the Disney-Dumbening down of Broadway. We can only hope...

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:43pm

uhh..Corine, Wonderful TOwn is closing the 29th.
-d.b.j-

[SamIAm]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:44pm

Then there's OB (The Fantasticks)...which went on as Ulla would say 'yeerss and yeerss'

[mamamia sammy]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:44pm

uhhh... no it's not.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:48pm

I don't quite understand the vehemence against Disney and its perceived "dumbing down" of Broadway. Afterall, Disney helped keep composers and lyricists like Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz afloat...

Not to mention, for many of us "young 'uns" out there, Disney and its various movies were our first encounters with the musical form... a plot, driven by songs...

Having said all of that, Disney does leave a lot to be desired with the current three shows it has on the Great White Way. Which makes its anticipated Mary Poppins, the Great White Hope...

But, sorry for taking over the thread.

[WhatevDude]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:51pm

Not to mention, for many of us "young 'uns" out there, Disney and its various movies were our first encounters with the musical form... a plot, driven by songs...

Exactly. They are a predictable plot with songs, easily understood by children. Now, I may be wrong, but I wouldn't call that "intelligent".

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:53pm

all of the 'modern' Disney animated films of the late 80s-90s are EXACTLY the same in every way. The exact same structure, exact same muscial composition... look.. Under the sea in Mermain, be our guest in beauty and friend like me from aladdin are ALL the same thing!

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:54pm

Not intelligent, but entertaining.

Half of what's currently on Broadway at the moment is hardly "intelligent." Nor is it Disney.

However, it is a shame that all the intelligent shows are closing this weekend....

[mominator]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 6:57pm

Corine, between you and I we could keep Forbidden Broadway open forever!

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 7:01pm

I actually love The Lion King. Taymor's direction is phenomenal and startling. People tend to forget that The Lion King is still essentially a children's/family musical - but now given a visual sophistication by Taymor.

I think Beauty And The Beast constitutes the dumbing down of Broadway. It's just a live-action facsimile of the movie with no imagination. It's Disney On Ice, without the ice.

Updated On: 8/24/04 at 07:01 PM

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 9:12pm

I find it funny how you cant say cockroach

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 9:14pm

"I know, but it seems plays are really having a tough time."
If you look at a lot of the upcoming shows, there are quite a few plays out there.
and it is sad that all these shows are coming to an end....but that's the cycle of Broadway.
On a side note, Disney on Broadway has brought a new audience to theatre...that's one of the good things disney has done...gotta admit that.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 8/24/04 at 9:19pm

DID YOU FORGET LITTLE SHOP?????? :X