Posted: 5/6/16 at 10:55am
After Eight can never discuss anything he likes without disparaging everything he doesn't.
Posted: 5/6/16 at 11:03am
I also love that 8's highest compliment often turns out to be "pleasant."
Illiterate, generic, totally non-theatrical, sure. But it's pleasant.
Updated On: 5/6/16 at 11:03 AM
Posted: 5/6/16 at 11:57am
Good. Broadway needs less musicals with scores made up of rejected Coldplay singles.
Posted: 5/6/16 at 12:39pm
When I finally saw the show a few months ago I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Matthew Morrison, Laura Michelle Kelly and Kelsey Grammer won me over. The end scene is still one of my favorite Broadway moments. Hope the show does well on tour.
Does anyone know if the 3pm on 8/21 is the last show or do they have a night show as well?
Posted: 5/6/16 at 12:54pm
TheaterGal3 said: "When I finally saw the show a few months ago I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Matthew Morrison, Laura Michelle Kelly and Kelsey Grammer won me over. The end scene is still one of my favorite Broadway moments. Hope the show does well on tour.
Does anyone know if the 3pm on 8/21 is the last show or do they have a night show as well?"
That's the last one. I already bought my ticket for it!
Posted: 5/6/16 at 12:55pm
I loved it and thought the score was terrific. Saw it twice with Jordan, once with Morrison and once with Morrison's understudy. I thought all gave fine performances, but enjoyed Morrison's the most, even if for the wrong reason. Jordan was terrific in all ways but his basic movement, which was rigid. Morrison was fluid -- you wanted him to break out into a Fred Astaire homage -- but the wasn't necessarily Barrie.
i have listened to many of last season's cast recordings and I will never understand the rancor concerning this score...I really think it has a lot of terrific songs.
Ironically, in the old days, 600 performances would have been a more than respectable run and likely resulted in a profitable run. Not any more.
Posted: 5/6/16 at 1:37pm
Eliza2 - thank you! I'm going to get one too.
Posted: 5/6/16 at 3:16pm
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/finding-neverland-close-summer-broadway-38929492
This is odd commentary by AP it claims they FN never really found a Broadway audience, but it did. It grossed ove $1 million a week over the summer and holiday periods.
Posted: 5/6/16 at 6:02pm
Sad to see any show close and while it was not the best thing I saw from last year it still was enjoyable.
Posted: 5/6/16 at 6:06pm
"This is odd commentary by AP it claims they FN never really found a Broadway audience, but it did. It grossed over $1 million a week over the summer and holiday periods. "
Good point and it will play over 1 year. For a show that did not receive one Tony nomination that is pretty good IMO.
Posted: 5/6/16 at 6:13pm
Sunny11 said: "http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/finding-neverland-close-summer-broadway-38929492
This is odd commentary by AP it claims they FN never really found a Broadway audience, but it did. It grossed ove $1 million a week over the summer and holiday periods.
I sort of felt the same way, but need to provide some context. Given how much the audiences which I sat with consistently showed signs of loving the show, I thought that it would pull a mini-Wicked and suddenly take off, despite the Tony fiasco (which I attributed to unfair dislike for Harvey Weinstein), becoming the must-see show for some audience demographic (who would not like all the dancing in AAIP and hate Fun Home because of its subject matter (not the reason I disliked it) and depressing conclusion).
What I assume happened instead is that the grosses fell as the upfront advance wore off and summer ended, and that demographic continued to buy at the kind of pace no musical wants. Sad, because I loved the show (hated the sets and didn't love the choreography) and thought the entire scene leading up to Sylvia's death was one of the most beautifully staged 10 minutes I have ever seen in the theatre.
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Posted: 5/7/16 at 2:02am
But during the Fall FN grosses where still healthy ( 700k - 900k) and similar to Something Rotten's, a show that opened around the same time and targeted to a more theater crowd with all the in jokes. It was obviously had a " Broadway audience " during those times since families and tourists where not as abundant.
Posted: 5/7/16 at 9:00am
I don't know how much more scaled back it could get for tour? I already thought the Broadway production was severely lacking in production quality and design. The hall thing felt small and cheap at the Lunt.
Posted: 5/7/16 at 12:52pm
RippedMan said: "I don't know how much more scaled back it could get for tour?..."
It is going to be a large tour and will look almost the same as in the Lunt. I'm sure the internally-lit portal legs won't rotate like they do on Broadway (nobody notices them anyway), and it will be interesting to see if/how they pull off the "Air Sculpture," as they won't be able to put the fans in the trap room. Maybe they'll do it like in Amaluna (I'm seeing a trend here, Paulus), where regular circular fans just pop out of the deck to create the air effect.
