#76
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!
Drowsy to close Dec 30th — Page 4
#77
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.
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#78
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".
Congrats to "Drowsy" for making so many people happy - Good Luck to "Cry Baby".
#79
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!
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!
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#81
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?
#82
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?
#83
Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:54pm
What's YOURS????
No....REALLY!
No....REALLY!
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#84
Posted: 12/20/07 at 1:57pm
Dancin Thru Life, if you can't post in English, please don't post at all.
#85
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.
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.
#87
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.
#88
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.
"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.
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