Encores’ PIAZZA Transfering To Broadway?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 7:00pm

Twitter, sorry “X” Post…

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 7:04pm

With or without Ruthie? I wouldn't think she'd completely bail on Sweeney Todd this quickly — unless, of course, she's on a shorter contract. 

[Dylan Smith4]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 7:05pm

OMG!!! Please let it be true! I don't know if I can deal with City Center teasing us with emoji clues again!!!

[ACL2006]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 7:26pm

Feel like there's so many revivals on the schedule for this current season.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 7:30pm

Everyone is "looking for a house."

Who is the commercial producer behind this?

It would be quite a feat to have two Guettel musicals flop within one season.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 7:32pm

It'd be a helluva thing if both Piazza and Days of Wine and Roses played in the same season.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 9:45pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Everyone is "looking for a house."

Who is the commercial producer behind this?"

I’m curious about this too, any SEC filings out there that can give us a hint?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 9:52pm

Plenty of houses but I’m not sure this quite has the steam that Into the Woods and Parade had going into their commercial runs. But maybe if it opens in March after her Sweeney contract? But both of those revivals had bigger names so not sure this would ever catch on. Was her performance enough to warrant a possible Tony win?

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 10:32pm

Ruthie's performance was extraordinary. She would be a major Tony contender if this transferred. Ruthie vs Kelli in Wine and Roses would be an insane competition. 

I really hope this transfer. What Ruthie did with "The Beauty Is" reprise and "Fable" was miraculous. 

Updated On: 7/24/23 at 10:32 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 10:52pm

ljay889 said: "Ruthie's performance was extraordinary. She would be a major Tony contender if this transferred. Ruthie vs Kelli in Wine and Roses would be an insane competition.

I really hope this transfer. What Ruthie did with "The Beauty Is" reprise and "Fable" was miraculous."

 

"The Beauty Is-Reprise" just broke me.  This production really can't transfer without her.  JMO

 

[OMG U Guyz]

Posted: 7/24/23 at 11:24pm

KevinKlawitter said: "It'd be a helluva thing if bothPiazzaandDays of Wine and Rosesplayed in the same season."

Kelli is committed to The Hours at The Met in May so she wouldn’t be available during Tony voting.

[Soaring29]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 1:04am

I'm not sure why Kelli signed on to The Hours for 2024 when Days of Wine and Roses being transferred to Broadway is still a possibility. But it's only eight performances in May so it's not impossible for her to do both.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 1:10am

OMG U Guyz said: "Kelli is committed to The Hours at The Met in May so she wouldn’t be available during Tony voting."

There’s no guarantee DAYS would still be running by May, and if the show plans to open before the end of 2023, voters would have ample time to see the show before May. And at worst she’d probably miss half her May performances of DAYS.

(side note, looks like Elena Shaddow filled in for her during her outs at the Atlantic — as she did during Bridges)

[OMG U Guyz]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 1:41am

Soaring29 said: "I'm not sure why Kelli signed on to The Hours for 2024 when Days of Wine and Roses being transferred to Broadway is still a possibility. But it's only eight performances in May so it's not impossible for her to do both."

Operas are booked at least 2 years in advance I’m not sure how long she’s been attached wine and roses but she would’ve had to commit to April/May 2024 winter 2021/spring 2022. Plus she sells tickets for the Met. Singers replace singers all the time in opera but she’s been in all the press materials. 

[Toll357]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 2:28am

They are running The Hours again at The Met? 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 8:07am

Toll357 said: "They are running The Hours again at The Met?"

https://www.metopera.org/season/2023-24-season/the-hours/

 

[UWS10023]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 9:10am

City Center should remount it for 6 weeks at City Center. 

[steven22]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 9:26am

UWS10023 said: "City Center should remount it for 6 weeks at City Center."

This would make me very happy! 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 6:39pm

I had assumed Sweeney Todd would close by January, or whenever Josh Groban's contract was up (like Hugh Jackman and Music Man), which would leave Ruthie free.  I'd love to see this again now that I know the show better, so I'm definitely rooting for it!

[BJR]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 9:54am

EDSOSLO858 said: "With or without Ruthie? I wouldn't think she'd completely bail onSweeney Toddthis quickly — unless, of course, she's on a shorter contract."

She would have a contractual out for a Bway lead role.

That said, this seems like quite the longshot for revival. But perhaps there are investors that really love Guettel and want both this and WINE AND ROSES on Bway. Both feel like tough sells.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 10:05am

I had heard that Days might have a niche move, more like the Gyllenhaal Sunday in the Park. But "hearing" is rather ridiculous. We "hear" a lot that's sourced in cyberspace. I would think Piazza would be a hard-ish sell, simply because the show isn't that old, the prior production only ran a year plus.  And wasn't there talk of the Rene Fleming iteration that never worked out? Covid a factor, but still. I saw Piazza at City Center, and found it transporting, its second act something that can't be fully explained: Miles pulled the audience forward to listen with a heartstopping immediacy I've never experienced in 50 years of theatergoing. But does that translate into Broadway 8 times a week? It's an open question, the ravishing Encores! revival's brilliance not in question.

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 10:39am

This feels like the type of show where they are looking for people who will bring this to Broadway because it's "important" and not because they actually think it'll make any money. 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 10:53am

I don't know how well it would do now, but the original production ran for around 500 performances which for this style of show is nothing to sneeze at.  The LCT membership base certainly helped with that.

[Owen22]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 10:57am

jkcohen626 said: "This feels like the type of show where they are looking for people who will bring this to Broadway because it's "important" and not because they actually think it'll make any money."

Does this really happen? Are there Broadway producers that can afford to knowingly lose money that way?  They have to believe it will catch on with the public, that it will win awards that help the box office, etc.

I know there are Brit producers who do this (Sonia Friedman comes to mind) but it is so much less expensive to transfer things to the West End than it is here.

[Kad]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 11:29am

Scott Rudin regularly did it. It highly burnished his stature as a producer.