GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE... - Staying Power

GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE..., having opened this past week, I was curious as to what the consensus was as to its staying power through the holidays and into the new year. The reviews by all accounts were ridiculously strong, many of them rave reviews. With the positive word of mouth spreading, do you all think that it will have a life, surviving the wintertime chopping block? I ask more so from the perspective of someone still looking to buy tickets, and dreading an email sighting in early closing date for a performance I would likely be booking in January or February.

^ I'm pretty sure that LimelightMike has known that for quite a while.

My guess is that despite the great reviews, they start seeing really low numbers in January/February, but do their best to fight through to try and get to the Tony's in hopes that Jefferson Mays will win. Not sure if they will be able to though. And if Tony season doesn't go well for them, they will be done for.

Let's hope so, I booked it for March already...

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While I think the show is sort of fun and cute, I don't think it merits a full price ticket purchase, and believe eventually audiences will begin to feel the same way. I could be wrong, just my prediction.

Despite all the glowing reviews, I think this is a real 'word-of-mouth' show, which is why I received the Deep Discount Offer in my Email this week. It will make more people willing to take a chance on it and spread the (hopefully good) word.

Even if they have rough weeks in January & February, the producers are going to keep this show going till Tony time. I think this show has a lot of industry good-will behind it. It's a solid show with terrific performances (the score has been rather underrated) and has been created by fresh theater writer talents. All the reason to support it.

GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE reminds me of much of Peter Mills works, particularly the luscious THE PURSUIT OF PERSEPHONE. I'd love to see that on Broadway!

Updated On: 11/22/13 at 09:30 PM

I do.

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It's not an expensive show. It'll survive without a problem on the strength of the reviews. It doesn't need to sell full price tickets to make money.

"I believe the thread was asking about whether or not the show will last. God forbid someone thinks a show won't run forever. "

And God forbid someone should be encouraged to elaborate.

Were all the theaters that it had it's "Tryouts" at on as producers?

Theater'sBestFriend- my point was simply that LimelightMike is not a newbie, so since you were pointing out the obvious, I did too.

and PalJoey- I hope it runs for a long time as well! I keep recommending it to people who I know who live there, or how are going to be visiting NYC.

"Since it's impossible to say who's a veteran and who's a newbie among the viewers, I think it's nice to be inclusive of all. "

Theater'sBestFriend, you can get an idea of who are veterans and who are newbies by looking under their name on the left side of the post. It has date joined, the site also gives you a title according to how frequent you post.


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Updated On: 11/23/13 at 10:22 AM

Row D is the 2nd Row, the stage is not overly high, the set stage is a few steps up it is set back a bit so your view should be great.