ENRON to close 5/9- Page 3

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 9:24am

I'm totally blaming you, then, gcontini2.

BTW, what other shows are you thinking of seeing?

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 9:29am

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/may/05/enron-broadway-close-early

[romgitsean]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 9:56am

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?

[phantom39]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 9:58am

I agree with the first comment in that article...
ENRON should have had a specific target audience in mind to market the show to. It didn't. And even the marketing that did go on, was too little and poor.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 10:01am

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.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 10:29am

I am also think that a person, worried about their family finances, the economy and making ends meet, will rush to spend their entertainment escapism dollars to see a show about shady financial dealings, corruption and economic ruin.

Salt meet wound, isn't it a fun night at the theatre?

[Blockhead24]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 10:36am

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.

[TonyVincent]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 11:00am

Gregory Itzin called out line a few times and you could hear Norbert giving him the line but he still had trouble.

Give him a break, he's in the middle of tense negotiations to preserve the peace treaty with Russia and the IRK!

[CAX]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 11:07am

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.

[musical_ash_09]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:03pm

Such a shame. I was looking forward to seeing this. I had tickets for the first week of June. Is it normal for a show to close that close to opening night? I mean, did it even have a chance?
I would have thought it would have atleast finished out the month of May.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:32pm

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

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:35pm

Is Enron's Sunday performance at 3pm or 7:30pm? Or both?

Playbill and Ticketmaster say 3pm, but tdf has 7:30pm tickets. I really want to buy a tdf ticket to see the show, but can only do a matinee.... help! Can anyone clarify?

[nealb1]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:43pm

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.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 2:56pm

I think TDF has the time wrong. They have the Saturday matinee and a Sunday evening performance listed as available, but that Sunday time has to be wrong as Telecharge has a 3PM show time. ENRON did have a Sunday evening performance earlier this week, so that might have confused someone over at TDF.
Updated On: 5/5/10 at 02:56 PM

[Eos]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 3:28pm

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

[musical_ash_09]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 3:34pm

I got one too Eos.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 3:57pm

Thanks for posting that.

[EugLoven]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 5:27pm

ENRON is currently on TDF right now!!!

Saturday May 8 at 2:00pm matinee
and
Sunday May 9 at 7:30pm (special closing evening show)

[Luv2goToShows]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 6:37pm

They added an evening performance on Sunday

[gcontini2]

Posted: 5/6/10 at 12:40am

I just saw the show tonight. Wasn't bad, wasn't great.. Kind of funny that the British press has been whining today that New York audiences don't get the experimental aspects of the play.
I totally "got" the light saber fighting, the clunky marching, and the characters in animal heads....it's just that kind of stuff was clever in high school, not on a Broadway stage... All in all, I learned a few financial things via interesting dialogue metaphors used to explain the Enron schemes and dreams, but folks, that still ain't great drama...(and I don't think I would have thought so even if I were hearing it in Sloane Square...)

[bwaybug85]

Posted: 5/6/10 at 11:35am

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.

[wexy]

Posted: 5/6/10 at 10:39pm

What the heck. Got a TDF ticket for the closing.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/6/10 at 10:46pm

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

[Eos]

Posted: 5/7/10 at 12:32am

Interesting. *sigh* Now I'm REALLY bummed out I'm gonna miss this. First CORAM BOY, now this... Maybe I'll fill this slot with BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON.