Clockwork Orange Cancelled Sunday night — Page 2

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.

I would suspect it was injuries/illness. I know one Broadway show (now closed) that had 12 people off due to sickness for one show. They called in cast on vacation, pulled previous cast from other shows - with permission from those producers - and ran the show with split and missing tracks but still managed to get the show on. Cancelling would have been a PR nightmare.

I'm pretty certain Clockwork Orange wouldn't cancel for low ticket sales. The PR would be bad. However, if it was injury/illness, and they only have one swing, the producers are majorly at fault and deserve all the grief they get. They were asking for trouble, particularly in a show that is so physical.

Updated On: 11/20/17 at 12:31 PM

Just_John said: "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 theyear 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’s not so much bashing the show I have issues with, but bashing the fact that the producers were forced to cancel a performance. It sucks but things happen. The available understudies may not have been up to speed on the fight choreography so they may have cancelled, rather than risk injury. I didn’t carry on after my performance of Othello was cancelled. This too shall pass.

TheGingerBreadMan said: "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."

RippedMan said: "Now I'm kinda curious to see this hot mess! "

Why not see it before calling it a hot mess?

I do know that as per equity rule, if a show is running a particular length, then they don't need to hire understudies. However, if a show goes beyond whatever the given number of performances is, they need to hire them. To me, it seems like the producers hired the bare minimum as a way to save money. Something that clearly backfired.

MayAudraBlessYou2 said:

And while no company would ever admit it, plenty of small shows cancel (or try to) when they've hardly sold any seats. On one hand I understand the thought here, but doing it the day of is entirely unprofessional and I'm surprised New World Stages allowed it to happen so last minute. Their box office normally runs a pretty tight ship, so I'm leaning towards cast illness and/or injuries that they were not informed of until very late in the day."



SO much ignorance (not to mention entitlement) in this thread. To start with --- anyone who is working on a union contract on the show (actors, crew, creative team, authors, etc.) gets paid even if the producers cancel a show. New World Stages also gets their full weekly rental (including box office and house staff). The producers (at least in this situation) save nothing by cancelling a show.

South Fl Marc said: "We picked up our tickets one hour before the show. They only cancelled the show one half hour before curtain. If it was an injury or illness you would think they would know way before that point."



And you think they wouldn't know if they hadn't sold any tickets by that time? Your logic makes no sense. And yes, people can get sick on "short notice". Maybe the guy ate some bad sushi during the dinner break??

Once again you are all talking bollox.

newintown said: "Is that a cross betweenbollocksandbotox?"

No, the term for that is scrotox: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/scrotox-botox-men-testicles-scrotum-a7447871.html

One would think that a show as intensely physical as this one- and, in fact, made the physicality one of the main marketing points (the actors do boot camps for their warm up!)- would see the value in investing in more than one swing.