Disgraced Closing March 1
Disgraced Closing March 1
#2Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 5:23pmCertainly sounds like the perfect opportunity for THE VISIT.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#2Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 5:24pmAs I just posted about in The Visit thread, yes, it's a possibility. Anyone who follows the grosses saw this one coming.
#3Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 5:25pmNot very surprising. That would certainly be a good theatre for The Visit, and that's all that they were waiting for.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#4Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 5:26pmWas this initially an open run? Seems pretty ambitious for any play these days.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#6Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 5:32pmThe timing is perfect for The Visit to come in this season.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#7Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 5:34pmI'm a bit surprised none of you took out a second to regret the closing of Disgraced. Was it that disliked? I thought it a powerful play.
#8Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 5:34pm
If I had to guess it wasn't so much grosses as it was Josh Radnor's contract ending March 1st. It has had extremly respectable grosses for a play, and if the show was truly hurting it would close this month and not two months down the road.
1000songs
Chorus Member Joined: 12/13/14
#9Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 5:52pmI would of loved to see it. Any chances of the Frick coming to Broadway?
DrowsyKaye
Understudy Joined: 8/27/12
#10Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 6:20pm
What "NewYorkTheater" said.
Glad to see no one cares about a well-written, powerful new play, and just want to talk about the prospects of a new musical coming in to replace it. Keep it up.
#11Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 6:28pm
^
Does it hurt to clutch your pearls so tightly?
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
#12Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 6:32pmso, should we be wearing black? Candlelight vigil? What should we be doing? The play and our opinions on it have been discussed already.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#13Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 6:45pm
"I'm a bit surprised none of you took out a second to regret the closing of Disgraced."
Why didn't you do it if you're so sad about the closing?
Enjoyed the show, good performances.
#14Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 6:58pm
I thought that's what i was doing. But if you need me to be more explicit:
I regret the closing of "Disgraced," and that a dramatically satisfying play that attempts to comment on an important issue facing us can only last on Broadway four months.
Disgraced - Bluntly Provocative, Dramatically Satisfying
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#15Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 7:10pmIt will have lasted longer than any new play last season and probably longer than most this season other than Curious Incident.
#16Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 7:41pmI wouldn't be shocked if the stop clause was invoked in a similar fashion to Side Show.
#17Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 8:14pmI will make it my business to get in before it closes. I loved loved loved The Invisible Hand and thought it a powerful piece of theater. I liked The Who and the What too, but I didn't find it quite as memorable.
#18Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 8:23pmThe Visit has found a home @ the Lyceum...Official announcement this week by the producers :)
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#19Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 8:26pm
So excited about The Visit coming in to take over! (:p).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#20Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 8:38pm
@Mr. Musical--
The stop clause was not invoked re Side Show, though it would have been if necessary, and it certainly will not be invoked re Disgraced.
#21Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 8:51pm
According to an article in the NYTimes Side Show was indeed evicted.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/theater/side-show-reportedly-to-end-broadway-run-in-january.html?referrer=
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#22Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 8:57pm
Disgraced was okay. IMO, the performances weren't as great as people made them out to be, and the script itself was both well-written and messy (the structure).
I love when plays tour, though! Wish more plays would go on the road.
#23Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 8:59pmWhat the article says, which is correct and also what I said, is that they were told that if they did not close, it would be used. The producer agreed to close the show. Had he not, his first gig as a lead producer would have also been his last.
#24Disgraced Closing March 1
Posted: 1/4/15 at 9:05pm
@Hogans
The stop clause may not have formally been used, but for all intents and purposes, in how the politics of this business work, it was
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