Cabaret Canceled Tonight (3/28)

[jess_be]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:22pm

So Alan Cumming is sick and this renders my hard to aquire hiptix useless because the next date available is JULY!!!!!!!!!! Glad noone in the roundabout office will offer any other alternatives for me for tickets sooner than 3 months(end of rant). However is this common to cancel a show outright because of a sick lead?




Alan out sick Updated On: 3/29/14 at 03:22 PM

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:24pm

Already covered in the Cabaret previews thread.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:28pm

People are coming to see him and are not paying big bucks for an understudy no matter how good he might be. It is the nature of the beast.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:30pm

Alan Cummings was never in this.

[oasisjeff]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:34pm

I wouldn't pay big bucks to see the understudy, but if Alan was out tonight, and the understudy was on, I'd be headed downtown tonight to check him out. Especially since the hottie who plays Bobby will eventually be Alan's understudy, heh.

[jess_be]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:35pm

noted

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:36pm

I know, how hard is it to get someone's name right? Multiple people have gotten his name wrong on the Cabaret threads. Cumming. NO S.

Updated On: 3/28/14 at 03:36 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:41pm

I just hope Alan Cummings feels better.

[jess_be]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:42pm

Geez. Again with the name. A simple mistake. Never again! Sorry your eyes had to see such awfulness. Rest assured I have edited my original message and no one else will be subjected to this atrocity.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 3:44pm

I was just wishing him well.

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 4:16pm

Actually it's Cumming not Cummings.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 4:22pm

"Note to all: Alan Cumming would like you to know that there is no "S" at the end of his last name. "In my comedy shows, I do a song," says the actor amid a sea of orange chairs at the Crosby Street Hotel’s private movie theater, "I do my own little version called ‘Cumming With a 'G'." He breaks into song: “Oh, it’s Cumming with a ‘G’ not Cummings with an ‘S’..."

Gotham Q & A

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 4:23pm

Is that like Liza with a Z?

[tazber]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 4:25pm

Well at least Michelle William will get a night to rest.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 4:26pm

Uh oh call the police, someone put an S on a name. I heard you could get 30-60 for that crime. Run and hide, Taz!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 4:43pm

You get the chair if you write in caps.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 4:58pm

Why can't his understudy go on?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 5:00pm

People are comings to see Cumming.

Updated On: 3/28/14 at 05:00 PM

[oasisjeff]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 5:09pm

"Why can't his understudy go on?"

The answer you seek is in the article you didn't click through to read.

"this renders my hard to aquire hiptix useless because the next date available is JULY!!!!!!!!!! Glad noone in the roundabout office will offer any other alternatives for me for tickets sooner than 3 months"

Is that because of HipTix or because the run is very sold out until around July, in which case someone who paid $350 for a table up close is just as put out as your $25, unless you factor in them being out $325 more per seat and also waiting until July.

[ethan231h]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 5:14pm

an understudy can't go on cause he hasn't had rehearsals yet and performances are resuming tomorrow according to roundabout!

[ArtMan]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 5:20pm

Well, that explains why I couldn't get through to a representative earlier today. I was calling on the status of my ticket exchange (for June). Finally, hung up instead of racking up an expensive long distance call. Good luck to the rest of you. Hope you are local.

[binau]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 5:28pm

Interestingly I imagine it would have been much cheaper to rehearse the understudy than to cancel this performance. This risk did not pay off (I realise it is apparently common).

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 5:32pm

To the OP: while I understand being disappointed, it's no one's fault the actor got sick. The Roundabout, too, will be hurt by this. Put on your big girl panties. Life goes that way sometimes.

If there aren't any tickets at your price range, there aren't any tickets: what do you thing they should do exactly?

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 6:00pm

Exactly, there's no second Cumming.

[Kad]

Posted: 3/28/14 at 6:08pm

What other alternatives would you like Roundabout to offer you other than an exact exchange of your ticket's value or a refund?