Drowsy to close Dec 30th- Page 4

[bigbigbill]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:17am

This was the first show I really loved. I will really miss it. Good luck to everyone involved and I hope to see them all in shows in the near future!

[jordangirl]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 6:40am

I gotta say, once the announcement about Beth's new project came out, I figured it was only a matter of time before some kind of official announcement was made. Because hadn't she been contracted through April or May or something? So when a different leave date was announced, I figured it meant a closing notice soon.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 7:58am

While its always sad a show is closing, this doesn't bother me one bit. It was a nice show - a lot of people saw it - it made money and started a tour - and the show will live forever in regional theatre, dinner theatre and . Now its closing and a new show can take its place. This is the way Broadway should be - not a place where a show stays for 10 , or 20 years - becoming a museum piece or a show where people who don't speak the language can marvel at pure spectacle.

Congrats to "Drowsy" for making so many people happy - Good Luck to "Cry Baby".

[Dancin Thru Life]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:22pm

I'm not posting to take sides in the "SAGET" battle, but I am feeling particularly thick-skinned today so I will just say this:

I'm baffled by how many of you can declare that Bob Saget had nothing to do with the show's closing. He was probably brought in to create some excitement around the show and keep the tickets selling so it could stay open, no?

One thing is for sure...it kept me and my friends from going back to see it with Bob Saget in it. I simply do not like anything about him in ANYTHING he has done. I'm pretty sure lots of folks would rather spend the night watching someone they don't know on stage rather than someone they really can't stomache.

The show's not making money? Why wouldn't the lead share some of that responsibility?

Guess my wait for the NEXT MIC is over.

Time to move on! HAHA!

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:24pm

Ah, how I love 12 year olds on BWW.

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:25pm

I think it's impossible not to see that Saget had something to do with this. When the show was doing 65% two months ago without him, and now is doing 39% WITH him, what other conclusion is there to draw?

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:28pm

Legally Blonde was doing 80-85% a few months ago. This week it did something in the mid 50%s. What's your point?

[Dancin Thru Life]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:54pm

What's YOURS????

No....REALLY!

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:57pm

Dancin Thru Life, if you can't post in English, please don't post at all.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 12/21/07 at 2:43pm

Furthermore, NeddyFrank2, the show was NOT planning to close before Saget came in. And saying it has 0 commercial appeal is dumber than anything Tkt2ride has ever said.

The show was planning on closing before Saget came in. They knew in August that the show was going to be closed by February. Now, they also knew that there was a strong possibility that it was going to be closing earlier and they brought in Saget to try and carry out the remainder of the run and postpone the closing. Obviously it didn't work because even with Saget they are closing earlier than expected.

And I might have exaggerated a little the show does have a TINY TINY TINY bit of commercial appeal, not much though. In order for it to have survived longer it would have needed to win the Tony.

[postergirl]

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:22pm

And so it should have.

[Studmuffn520]

Posted: 12/21/07 at 5:45pm

im so upset! i really hope i can get to see it before it goes. ive been wanting to see it forever.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 12/23/07 at 9:59pm

Sorry to bump this up.

"I'm baffled by how many of you can declare that Bob Saget had nothing to do with the show's closing."

Bob Saget's role in the show closing is very minor, if anything. The show was already doing pretty lousy. The grosses started dipping at the end of the summer:

08/26/2007
$444,149

09/09/2007
$430,666

09/16/2007
$487,005

09/23/2007
$443,451

And after Bob Saget came in:

10/21/2007 (accounts for 2 performances)
$605,832

10/28/2007
$498,972

11/04/2007
$369,051

12/09/2007
$426,555

Keep in mind that the low grosses you see are weeks in which the show lost performances due to the strike, specifically:

11/11/2007 (4 performances)
$190,529

12/02/2007 (6 performances)
$331,158

And as I said, the show is pretty much drowned out by other more popular shows, which explains the lower grosses in the couple of weeks following the end of the strike. I doubt your average tourist is going to avoid the show solely because of Bob Saget. People want to see Mamma Mia, Phantom, Little Mermaid, Lion King, and Jersey Boys. And for the holidays, that is what everyone wants to buy. I am willing to bet that the people who are simply avoiding Drowsy because of Saget make up a small percentage of the audience.