DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Scottsacto
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/05
#2DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/27/12 at 7:16pmColor Me Surprised-----NOT!! After all that has been posted about this show.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#2DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/27/12 at 7:25pm
A tremendous waste of talent.
I hope the entire cast finds better material in short order.
#3DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/27/12 at 7:45pmIm still shocked Katie Holmes wasn't a bigger draw. I hope she comes back to Broadway soon!
Rodgerdodger
Chorus Member Joined: 8/17/12
#5DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/27/12 at 7:56pmI went the first week of previews before I went away for thanksgiving since I thought the run would be pretty much sold out by the time I got back to NYC.
#6DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:17pmMaybe now they'll stop producing Rebeck's crap.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Rodgerdodger
Chorus Member Joined: 8/17/12
#7DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:25pmFrom your voice to God's ears, little_sally.
zamedy
Broadway Star Joined: 6/27/07
#8DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:31pmI heart the Avi's on this thread.
Mtdewelite2010
Swing Joined: 9/17/10
#9DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 12:03amGood thing Norbert is going to Big Fish! Excited for that!
#10DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 3:09am
When was it scheduled to close originally?
I have never seen Katie on Broadway, but I didn't enjoy her on Dawson's Creek, and don't really think she is a big star, apart from being on cover of gossip magazines. And Leo, although a Tony winner, doesn't sell tickets either.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#11DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 7:34am
I agree^. She seems a competent enough actress whose biggest claim to fame was marrying Tom Cruise and Dawson's Creek (which was 20 years ago?). I don't think she was ever a draw at the movie box office, so I wouldn't have expected that people would have cared all that much about her being on b'way in a play they never heard anything about.
And Norbert - as much as the bway community might love him, no one else knows him.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#12DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 7:40am
Norbert is like Boyd Gaines. Lots of respect and Tonys, but not a box office draw on his own.
And Katie isn't a big TV star or movie star like the second Mrs. Cruise, who can and does sell tickets on name alone.
Katie's a tabloid star now. She would do better to go back to TV where people who are curious about her can tune in for free instead of shelling out $100 to see her in a bad play.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#13DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 1:22pmLove Norbert, mildly negative on Holmes, but let's pin this failure where it belongs - Rebeck. Surely there are talented women playwrights out there who deserve to be produced?
#14DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 1:37pmSomeone said in the preview thread that Rebeck's stuff is just easy to license, which is why it gets produced, and I am starting to believe that's the reason.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#15DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 2:10pm
I think Katie Holmes isn't the "I'll pay to see her!" star that producers anticipated. I know All My Sons recouped, but that's a famous play and Holmes starred alongside three other name actors.
On her own in an unknown property she's just not much of a draw. And then, of course, there's the fact that the play is terrible. That trumps anything else in my book.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#16DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 2:22pmThere aren't too many playwrights whose work is hard to license -- especially new work. So that doesn't fly (with me) as that being a reason.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#17DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 2:25pmAt the time that she did All My Sons, I think she was more of a curiosity. People wanted to see how Mrs Tom Cruise fared. Also, as others have mentioned, Katie hasn't had a hit movie in ages and she's off TV. People seem to respect her as an actress, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll pay top dollar to see her. I admire her for doing plays and I hope she does more; maybe next time she'll do something smaller, Off-Broadway, and hopefully good.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
Sondheim_Geek
Broadway Star Joined: 2/20/07
#19DEAD ACCOUNTS to Close on Broadway on January 6
Posted: 12/28/12 at 7:30pm
"Norbert is like Boyd Gaines. Lots of respect and Tonys, but not a box office draw on his own."
I'll agree with that 100%.
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