Empty Broadway Houses Summer 2023 Edition

[Voter]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 1:11pm

Compiling the house rumors... let's see who ends up closest to correct!

 

IMPERIAL - I haven't heard much 

MUSIC BOX - PURLIE CONFIRMED

AUGUST WILSON - Cabaret CONFIRMED

ST JAMES - SPAMALOT fall RUMORED

JACOBS - TOMMY/CHESS/two others RUMORED

SCHOENFELD - THE NOTEBOOK RUMORED

STUDIO 54 - idk at this point tbh

BEAUMONT - The Lehman Trilogy Rumored

BELASCO - HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO CONFIRMED

LONGACRE - if something was announced I missed it!

CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE - Melissa Etheridge (confirmed) but what after? nothing?

LYCEUM - Days of Wine and Roses (RUMORED)

 

Under Construction - PALACE, MAJESTIC

updated 7/31/23

Updated On: 8/1/23 at 01:11 PM

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 1:16pm

Circle in the Square has Melissa Etheridge: My Window, and the Music Box has Purlie Victorious.

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 1:18pm

Those are both limited runs, so this could be whatever's coming in afterwards (though summer is a bit misleading in that regard)

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 1:23pm

I think Notebook may be somewhere else or have been pushed to the Spring. Purlie Victorious is going to the Music Box. 

Melissa Etheridge: My Window will be at the Circle in the Square. 

I would guess that How to Dance in Ohio is going to either the Jacobs or Schoenfeld. But, if Grey House announces it's closing, then I think it'll go to the Lyceum. 

[Voter]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 1:29pm

Edited to correct Music Box (I forgot about PV)

A concert never really registers on my mind as a Broadway show show, but you're correct about Melissa. Kind of surprised Gutenberg isn't going there?

[Chaz Hands]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 1:30pm

I forget which thread it is in, but someone posted that Kenny Leon’s Trading Places had gotten a theater. No idea which one though, or if that rumor is true.

[Voter]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 1:30pm

I also keep forgetting about HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO... don't have an itching need to see it on Broadway

[Alex M]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 2:28pm

I thought The Wiz was taking the Majestic when it reopened? Maybe it can reopen the Palace?

[valebal7]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 3:11pm

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that "The Who's Tommy" is going to go into the St. James Theatre.  Any takers??  What about "The Wanderer" and "Come Fall in Love"?

[Voter]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 3:21pm

Alex M said: "I thought The Wiz was taking the Majestic when it reopened? Maybe it can reopen the Palace?"

I feel like the Majestic refurbish is going to take a while

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 3:36pm

Is SUFFS on track?

[Alex M]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 3:39pm

Voter said: "Alex M said: "I thought The Wiz was taking the Majestic when it reopened? Maybe it can reopen the Palace?"

I feel like the Majestic refurbish is going to take a while"

The WIz isnt coming in till around April, which means it would be around a year refurbishment.

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 3:44pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Is SUFFS on track?"

I think Suffs will have an out-of-town this season and then come in next season. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 4:08pm

Jones - Gutenberg 

Is Chess a “big show?” I’ve only seen it in concert. Feel like it would be better suited at the Jacobs. And I thought The Notebook was holding out for The Music Box.

[MimiChika]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 5:44pm

Voter said: "Compiling the house rumors... let's see who ends up closest to correct!



IMPERIAL - Chess

MUSIC BOX - PURLIE

AUGUST WILSON - Cabaret

ST JAMES - The Wiz?

JACOBS - The Notebook

SCHOENFELD -

STUDIO 54 -

BELASCO -

LONGACRE - if something was announced I missed it!

CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE -



Under Construction - PALACE, MAJESTIC"

Studio 54- EVITA

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 6:05pm

That just feels like such strange placement to me! Studio 54 is so small!

(but, to clarify, this is not the first I'm hearing of it)

Updated On: 7/5/23 at 06:05 PM

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 6:13pm

It's a smaller production. 

And I think the current version of Tommy would be swallowed whole at the St. James. 

[perfectpenguin]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 6:14pm

What about Mousetrap?!?

 

[pethian]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 9:16pm

Do we think that shows that have been announced might get shuffled around? I seem to recall that last season Almost Famous was announced at the Longacre, and then the Barrymore before opening at the Jacobs.

[Alex M]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 10:19pm

pethian said: "Do we think that shows that have been announced might get shuffled around? I seem to recall that last season Almost Famous was announced at the Longacre, and then the Barrymore before opening at the Jacobs."

Did that happen? I have no memory of that.

 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 10:21pm

Alex M said: "pethian said: "Do we think that shows that have been announced might get shuffled around? I seem to recall that last season Almost Famous was announced at the Longacre, and then the Barrymore before opening at the Jacobs."

Did that happen? I have no memory of that.

"

Almost Famous announced they would open at “a Shubert theatre TBA” in early June last year, then over a month later they had booked the Jacobs and adjusted their dates. 

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 11:14pm

Yeah they were selling tickets for an "unidentified" theatre that was very clearly the Barrymore minus a few rows at the back to obscure it. Garth refused to announce Paradise Square's closing, so they couldn't say that's what they had booked. 

When Company announced their closing, they switched over to the Jacobs. 

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 7/6/23 at 3:44am

i'm curious to see what will go into the beaumont.  any rumors?  

[Dylan Smith4]

Posted: 7/6/23 at 6:25am

Broadway Flash said: "i'm curious to see what will go into the beaumont. any rumors?"

I’d like to see the London production of Crazy For You transfer

[Dylan Smith4]

Posted: 7/6/23 at 6:26am

I’d love to see Studio 54 be home to Frecknall’s Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal. Hope it does transfer!