Dr. Dolittle going to the Palace?

Is it true that Tommy Tune's Dr. Dolittle tour is going to transfer to the Palace to replace Lestat? I heard that the tour rehearsed in the theater with the intention of returning there for a holiday run.

Can't imagine it trying to make it on B'way. The show has gotten lackluster reviews on the road and isn't selling very well.

But what the heck do I know? Stranger things have happend!

If the Palace is smart they won't take them. The Palace hasn't has a really good show for a while has it?

What about "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" instead?? Although, I don't know how big the Palace is...so it might be too small a show for that theater.

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Christmas Carol on Broadway was well done. It might make allot of money for Broadway since people loved the show in the past.

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"Critics never like children's shows"? What about The Lion King? Also A Year With Frog and Toad was loved by critics, although it failed to find an audience.

White Christmas should go there, I saw that the same week as I saw Drowsy Chaperone, and I would have loved Drowsy 100 times more had I not seen White Christmas the same week, it was that good.

Let's clear this up. Dr. Dolittle is a bad show. The tour is doing poorly, both Boston and Atlanta cancelled and it will be ending several months early. The original tour had hoped to come to Broadway, and very early in the Tommy Tune version there was talk about getting it there, but in it's current state, there's just no way. And Tommy Tune did several interviews stating he had no intentions of the show coming to Broadway.

It is however true that Dolittle rehearsed at the Palace this winter. The reason for that is that it is being produced by the Nederlanders, who found themselves with an empty theater because Lestat was held up in San Fransisco. They felt it would be cost saving to not only rehearse there, but set up make-shift costume and puppet shops there, rather than having to rent several large spaces for over a month. And that's the only connection.

The Tommy Tune tour was tentatively scheduled to play in Boston in August.

Updated On: 5/25/06 at 12:18 AM

wasn't the tour cancelled? anything that takes to have nancy anderson on broadway works for me.

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I don't know why the Nederlanders thought this would be a good idea. I just don't think this show would sell to today's audiences unless the upped the spectacle factor with really amazing puppets or some kind of gimmick.

Why is the Palace such hot property?

Why didn't they just bring the original show that played at the Palladium in London (for a couple of years) over? I have the CD and it sounds/appears much better than what was dished up for America before or after Tune.