ENRON to close 5/9 — Page 3

I'm totally blaming you, then, gcontini2.

BTW, what other shows are you thinking of seeing?

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I just got tickets for Saturday at two. I'm really excited now, actually.

Whoever said an actor ACTUALLY called line- that's worse than Patti calling someone out for pictures. Was this during an invited dress rehearsal? Or preview? PLEASE don't tell me this was during a performance; and if it was, that it wasn't Norbert or Marin.

And I think it's ridiculous to say they shouldn't credit it because it flopped. You should credit professional shows, flop or no flop. It's just disrespectful and snotty. Plenty of Lestat, Carrie, Woman in White and Pirate Queen cast members have credited it in bios, I've seen it before. In fact, I got into some really nice conversations with Chris Peluso who was in Lestat and Don Richard, who was in the workshop. Just because a show isn't financially successful or wasn't the best show in the world is no reason to credit it. People still credit Cats, don't they?

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The show was a bore. I'm not glad that some talented people are out of work, but there was just no play there, just a lot of gimmicks and wikipedia-level information spewed for nearly three hours.

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romgitsean, I was there for it-it was the second preview. Gregory Itzin called out line a few times and you could hear Norbert giving him the line but he still had trouble.

Rom,

As stated above, the actor who went up was not one of the two "Darlings"...Mazzie or Butz. I do think it's amazing that Butz is purportedly the one who did the line feeding... I wonder if he had script in hand or felt so much responsibility holding up the show, as it's LEAD, that he memorized everyone's lines. LOL.

As an actor, I say saddies. We've all been there, but as a paying audience member I was literally like "WTF? MAKE UP SOMETHING!!!!!" and the civilians/Finance folks I happened to be in company with that night were DONE pretty much from there. The illusion, if you can even call it that in a play of this style, was shattered.

It was the second preview. I chocked it up to 11th hour writing. I wanted, and still do want, to believe Prebble wrote him a 5 minute monologue less than 3 hours before he was to go on. Helps me save a little faith in the way something that cost this much cash HAS to be run.

I watched the documentary about 2 months ago and it really piqued my interest in the show.

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I saw the show on Sunday night - May 2nd @ 7pm. The Orchestra section was about 2/3 full. I did enjoy it. If you weren't familiar with what happened to Enron and didn't watch CNN when all of it was going on, you learned something. If you were familiar with what happened, then you didn't learn anything new.

It was kinda strange to see Norbert & M Mazzie in a play rather than a musical.

Always sad when a Broadway show closes.

I just got a closing notice email from Telecharge saying, "Please note, ENRON has added a 7:30pm performance on Sunday May 9th."

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Thanks for posting that.

They added an evening performance on Sunday

Was at the show last night. Saw several celebrities and Broadway performers there (I guess they wanted to catch it before it ends). I heard tons of talk during intermission and after the show from audience members about how surprising it was that the show was closing. I can't believe that people have witnessed audience members leaving during intermission because last night all I heard were raves. Hopefully ticket sales will go up this week and there will be a possible extention because it really is a genius piece of theater that shouldn't be missed. It might be "gimicky" or "too much" to some people but it far from boring and had my attention the entire time.

Posted this in the other "ENRON" closing thread. Will share it here. PBS Newshour did a segment at the end of their broadcast this evening on the show's closing. Interviews, clips and a short discussion on why it is closing. Good segment.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?s=news01s3f33qea3

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