#1
Posted: 2/8/04 at 9:15am
Just read in the paper this morning that POTO is now #2 in the "Broadway's longest running shows" category.
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#2
Posted: 2/8/04 at 9:30am
So very COOL!!!
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#3
Posted: 2/8/04 at 9:42am
How many more performances until they crush CATS!?
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#4
Posted: 2/8/04 at 9:49am
According to the paper--
Cats ran 18 years and 7485 performances
Le Miz closed after 6680 performances
POTO stands at 6681 performances as of Wednesday evening.
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Cats ran 18 years and 7485 performances
Le Miz closed after 6680 performances
POTO stands at 6681 performances as of Wednesday evening.
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#5
Posted: 2/8/04 at 11:33am
Eight Hundred Four for the mathematically impaired...
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#6
Posted: 2/8/04 at 11:45am
As the brilliant, talented and superfantabulous Miss Bebe Newirth points out in the interview on this very site: A Chorus Line is still the longest running Broadway musical. CATS, Les Miz and PO(ta?)TO are West End musicals.
As she said, "Cats all but destroyed humanity of theatre- everything was special effects... Theatre is a visceral experience for the audiences as well as performers. The more effects and machinery, the more you remove the audiences from their experience. I blame Cats for that."
AMEN, Bebe, I will love you for the rest of my life for saying that out loud and on the record.
As she said, "Cats all but destroyed humanity of theatre- everything was special effects... Theatre is a visceral experience for the audiences as well as performers. The more effects and machinery, the more you remove the audiences from their experience. I blame Cats for that."
AMEN, Bebe, I will love you for the rest of my life for saying that out loud and on the record.
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#7
Posted: 2/8/04 at 11:54am
Cameron Mackintosh (sp?): She's a witch! Get the electric chair and burn her! Only use the remote controlled electric chair. And actually we're only going to use 2 guards instead of the usual 4 the other 2 will be replaced by robots.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#8
Posted: 2/8/04 at 12:07pm
Beg pardon, Sum? What the heck are trying to say?
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#9
Posted: 2/8/04 at 4:06pm
I think that's supposed to be "his reply" to what Bebe said.
I don't really see how CATS was all speical affects though...eh *shrug*
Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet
I don't really see how CATS was all speical affects though...eh *shrug*
Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet
#10
Posted: 2/8/04 at 4:08pm
I saw Cats on tour yesterday and there was barely any special effects. I enjoyed the show based on the performers.
#11
Posted: 2/8/04 at 4:22pm
Yes. And the moral of that story is, non-equity productions tend not to have the production values that Bebe was talking about when the litter box was the Winter Garden Theater.
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#12
Posted: 2/8/04 at 4:35pm
All I can say about CATS. Saw it. Didn't like it. Don't care to ever see it again. POTO, on the other hand, would be a different story. One would hope they would be able to keep the production values up either way.
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#13
Posted: 2/8/04 at 5:15pm
Well the question is would you rather have POTO or Cats in that number 1 slot? It's like some posters stance on this board about Bush. Anything to get Cats out of that top spot! Even if it is POTO.
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#14
Posted: 2/8/04 at 5:22pm
Saw both. Hated both. A Chorus Line: The longest running Broadway Musical ever.
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#15
Posted: 2/8/04 at 7:44pm
Well, you can't please everone. That just leaves another mid center front seat open for me!
Where’s that pesky chandler?
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Where’s that pesky chandler?
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#16
Posted: 2/8/04 at 8:26pm
Phantom of the Opera is my favorite musical! I am very happy for the current (And AMAZING) cast, that's quite an honor.....CONGRATS!!!
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#17
Posted: 2/8/04 at 8:33pm
Yes, if you disqualify the shows that have run longer than it, 'A Chorus Line' is the longest-running Broadway show ever.
Also, if you discount the extra points the New England Patriots scored, the Carolina Panthers won The Super Bowl.
Also, if you discount the extra points the New England Patriots scored, the Carolina Panthers won The Super Bowl.
#18
Posted: 2/8/04 at 8:39pm
"If"--one of the most powerful words in the dictionary. There is a world of possibilities in that index file.
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#19
Posted: 2/8/04 at 9:00pm
yay! Go Phantom!!
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Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC
#20
Posted: 2/8/04 at 11:06pm
I wish it all the best, it's gone up and down in quality over the years, but the current cast has truly tightened it to a entertaining level.
#21
Posted: 2/14/04 at 11:55am
Phantom of the Opera is my favorite musical, too!!! I'll be seeing it with a friend of mine, maybe several friends!!
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#22
Posted: 2/14/04 at 2:32pm
Go POTO!! I'm seeing it in March -- can't wait!!
As for A Chorus Line being the longest running bway show ever, does anyone know how many performances there were?
As for A Chorus Line being the longest running bway show ever, does anyone know how many performances there were?
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#23
Posted: 2/14/04 at 5:41pm
I thought Cats was the longest running show ever so far??
"Life will be frozen peaches and cream.
Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC
#24
Posted: 2/14/04 at 6:01pm
It is on Broadway. 18 years and 7,485 performances.
Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet
Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet
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#25
Posted: 2/14/04 at 9:07pm
Finally going to see POTO on Wednesday. Got third row center seats. Wohoooo!!!!!!!!!!
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