Closing Shows on Broadway

[eandan]

Posted: 12/5/03 at 8:46pm

WOW... this season MANY new broadway shows closed...

Bobbi Boland, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Laughing Room Only and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 12/5/03 at 8:49pm

All plays if you noticed- and Take Me Out is closing soon as well. Plays are losing thier appeal, I suppose, to public audiences. Are they really worth $100 anymore?

[Cadriel]

Posted: 12/5/03 at 8:53pm

As an amateur playwright:

Most plays written nowadays are not worth $100, but then again most musicals really aren't either. What's really needed are profitable venues that aren't Broadway, that's all.

-Wayne

[cmleidi]

Posted: 12/5/03 at 9:01pm

I'm willing to pay $90/ $100. to see a play. To me, theatre is both plays and musicals, but I don't think a lot of people feel this way. I read a lot of people's travel posts and/or their asking about possible shows to see, and I rarely see any interest in plays. Granted, the plays haven't been that great, but neither have the musicals. I think it's a shame that some people who profess to love the theatre blithely admit to not going to see plays.

[BrdwyThtr]

Posted: 12/5/03 at 9:08pm

I don't think I would pay $100 to see a play, when I can see an excellent play here at our regional theatre(Geva Theatre Center).

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/5/03 at 9:32pm

Plays worth seeing:
I Am My Own Wife-
Nothing But The Truth- Lincoln Center
Golda's Balcony
Take Me Out
The Violet Hour- MTC
Musicals that need to be saved:
Songs of David Friedman Listen To My Heart!
Go and see it this weekend if you can write to the Producers.
Save LISTEN TO MY HEART.
Updated On: 12/5/03 at 09:32 PM

[Mamie4]

Posted: 12/5/03 at 11:28pm

I regularly read this board and "Talkin' Broadway" primarily to get news about what's going on in town at the various theatres and news about what's coming. Unfortunately I DON'T share most of the members passion for musicals. Some of them are all right - but they're never my first choice. The lack of plays on Broadway now is heartbreaking but the absolutely grand fact is that New York has OFF-BROADWAY and OFF-OFF-BROADWAY!

I do think that spending $100 for a play is too much. I also think that spending $100 for a musical is too much. In fact, I'm sure it's causing the slow death of live theatre. Fortunately I can still go to an off-Broadway house and see some wonderful theatre for much, much less than that. (Talking Heads at the Minetta Lane was a recent, WONDERFUL, example of this.)