Clockwork Orange Cancelled Sunday night

That truly sucks and I'm sorry that happened to you. I'm sure whatever the reason, it wasn't possible to do the show or they would have.

Theater3232 said: "Most likely poor ticket sales. but if you ask, they'll probably fabricate a reason like "cast illness" or "cast injury". If you look at all remaining performances, practically every seat remains unsold. It's highly embarrassing that it's closing on December 2nd since it knows nobody in their right mind would come to see it during the lucrative holiday season.

Bad acting, bad singing, anti-Catholic mess of a show. Got terrible word of mouth by me & by others.

Good riddance. Consider yourself lucky it was cancelled."



You must be fun at parties.

Not selling enough tickets is not a legitimate reason for cancelling. If we were the only tickets sold they still had a obligation to perform.

Do these bros LOOK SICK!?!?! Haha. Im just joking. But, seriously the show is garbage.

I know this is no consolation, and I completely understand your frustration, but consider yourself lucky. The show was a gigantic heap of garbage.

There is sometimes a clause in a contract for a production that if X amount of tickets aren’t sold then they have to cancel the performance since there are a lot of other people getting paid by the House. Not saying this was the case in this incident but it does happen especially in small houses.

MX888 said: "I know this show is divisive but all this bashing is seriously uncalled for. Matt Doyle went on for Jonno because he was out with a stomach bug/food poisoning. Matt posted that he had back issues/sciatica a week or so ago and since this production is physically intense, he probably tweaked it again. He was on his way to the doctor/PT right after the show. In the Playbill, I don't even recall an understudy listed for Jonno. Alek went on as Georgie and Jordan (swing) went on in Alek's part.

I'm sorry, but shows that have no understudies for a lead have canceled in the past when the lead has been injured/too sick to perform. Were they ever accused of "unprofessionalism" or that they were "too embarrassed" to perform to low audiences?"

All of the bashing is 100% called for. If a production is put up for people to pay to see, they have every right to go out in the world and tell everyone what they thought of it. Obviously, the majority of people think this was a pure hell of a mess. It was definitely the worst piece of theatre I saw all year. I would have liked to see Matt Doyle as the lead because he's fantastic in everything and I absolutely could not stand watching the main guy try to act. When other shows have been canceled due to the star being out it was because that star was the only reason anyone in the theatre was in the theatre and everyone would be entitled to refunds/exchanges, but that isn't the case here. Also, all equity actors have understudies. Even if the producer decides in advance that an understudy will not go on for Hugh Jackman or Daniel Radcliffe, an actor is still getting paid to be the understudy as per equity rules.

Also, those saying it's "only closing a month early." It's closing a month early during the busiest time of the year for the industry. Most shows sell out close, if not all the way, to capacity every performance so that's saying they really have no faith in this.

"...it just sickens me to see people kicking a production when it is down."

So we should only kick a show when it's up?

If Show-score.com had been around for Moose Murders, it would have called it a hit. That site is ridiculously optimistic.

newintown said: ""...it just sickens me to see people kicking a production when it is down."

So we should only kick a show when it's up?"

Oh please.