GREASE closing January 4th- Page 2
GREASE closing January 4th
Lynnespock2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/04
#25re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:01pmAmazing that people are happy about others unemployment.
Live long and prosper.
Marriage equity now!
#26re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:01pm
But in this economy, which is predicted to get worse before it gets better, will "something else hopefully better" sell?
I really wouldn't be surprised to hear that some shows due in next year will be postponed.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
Updated On: 12/3/08 at 05:01 PM
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#27re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:02pmI'm not happy for the unemployment of the cast and crew...I'm happy the show itself is gone. It's a terrible production.
coolkid11776
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/06
#28re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:02pm
I'm sad when almost every show closes.
But Grease is just a BAD show.
That should of closed months ago!
Rent
The best show on Broadway. I was at the closing. BEST night of my Life.
April 29th 1996-September 7th 2008
12 years of love
"No Day But Today"
#29re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:03pm
Should have.
Not of.
Dammit.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Usnavi
Stand-by Joined: 12/3/08
#30re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:05pm
i'm just wondering if all the people that are elated that this show is closing are actually getting something out of it?
don't get me wrong i felt this production of GREASE left a lot to be desired but that's just my opinion.
why carry on like it's something to celebrate?
Lynnespock2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/04
#31re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:15pmThis board hated Grease from the first. People have been talking about it closing since it opened. Sad, very sad.
Live long and prosper.
Marriage equity now!
rentheadca
Stand-by Joined: 10/20/08
#32re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:36pm
i don't know if anyone's posted the link yet...
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/123919.html
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#33re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:44pm
"Amazing that people are happy about others unemployment."
I get irritated with this kind of rationalization regarding the closing of a Broadway show. Yes, it is sad that these individuals will be uemployed. However, they CHOSE a field that is KNOWN for its instability as far a job prospects go. They are not guaranteed job security...even when the show is a hit like Wicked. There is always a price to pay to do what you love doing. Whether it be long hours at the office...months on the road...an unemployment rate of over 90% in your chosen profession. If you work on Broadway, you shouldn't be planning to be constantly employed, and should always be prepared when for the times you aren't.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#34re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:50pm
Another one bites the dust
Although I had no desire to see it, I wish the cast good luck with their next show.
Poster Emeritus
Lynnespock2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/04
#35re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:51pm
Fosse76: I understand very well the risks of having chosen this profession.
It was not a rationalization, which is an attempt to explain one's behavior, it is an observation at people who, no matter what show is closing, seem to take great joy in the event.
Everyone in the world wants to make some plans. It goes along with looking at your future and hoping you have one, regardless of your profession.
Live long and prosper.
Marriage equity now!
#36re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:54pmOnce again, another thread of mine gets deleted because it wasn't official until a couple of hours after I posted.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#37re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:55pmI, for one, couldn't stop crying once I heard the news. Actually, I've been crying since 1929 when the original production of Show Boat closed. All those dead people are STILL out of work!
ifuweregay93
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/06
#38re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:00pmFor a show coolkid hates, he sure posts like he loves it.
#39re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:02pmI know that White Christmas is only a limited engagement, but it's closing on January 4th as well. Times Square is going to seem so much slower the week of the 5th-11th.
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#40re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:10pmWhat about shows closing in January in general? Aren't there more than those five closing?
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#41re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:13pm
There are more then 5 closing on the 4th alone.
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
Updated On: 12/3/08 at 06:13 PM
#42re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:15pmTo the many people saying that they are happy Grease is closing...shame on you. How can it be a good/positive thing that these hard-working performers will be out of jobs? Despite your personal opinions on the show may be, I think it is a terrible thing to wish a show to close.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#43re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:18pm
This is something like a deathrow watch
One by one the prisoners are taken & executed. I wonder which one is next. There are going to be a ton of empty theaters before everything settles down
Maybe this will start to put a damper on yearly price increases. This is a wake up call or should be for poducers & theater owners.
Poster Emeritus
#44re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:22pm
"I'm not happy for the unemployment of the cast and crew...I'm happy the show itself is gone. It's a terrible production."
How can you say this with a username of "Wicked Rocks".
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
#45re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:24pm
Wicked is a GOOD production of a NOT so great show. Grease is a BAD production of a NOT so great show.
Shows: Cats- ?/??/97 & 3/16/04, 42nd St.- 1/3/06, The Producers- 12/13/06, Hairspray- 3/6/07, Phantom- 4/18/07, Gypsy- 10/21/07, Annie- 11/28/07, Chicago- 1/6/08, Dirty Rotten ...- 2/24/08, Legally Blonde- 4/23/08, Wicked- 10/29/08, Mamma Mia!- 11/12/08
Future Shows
Hairspray- 1/22/09, Drowsy Chaperone- 2/15/09, Sweeney Todd- 4/19/09, Ain't Misbehavin'- 5/17/09
Updated On: 12/3/08 at 06:24 PM
#46re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:26pmthis has to be a record! have this many shows closed all on the same day before??
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#47re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:26pm
I saw the original Grease.
It was & still is a mindless piece of fluff - entertaining & nothing more . It is not worthy of a revival every 5 years or so.
Did not think much of Wicked @ all.
Poster Emeritus
Usnavi
Stand-by Joined: 12/3/08
#48re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:33pmthe version of GREASE that's now playing on Broadway bears little resemblance to the original stage production that premiered in 1972.
#49re: GREASE closing January 4th
Posted: 12/3/08 at 6:34pm
To those asking things like how can it be a good thing that these performers will be out of jobs?
My only answer is that while I do feel bad for anyone out of a job right now, (a) they knew what this job was like before they signed up for, but more importantly (b) it is a good thing because in my opinion the travesty that was Grease was not at all indicitive of what Broadway is really like. It represented the worst things of Broadway (overdone show, reality casting, horrible sets, insipid choreography, etc.) and for that reason alone I am happy to see it close. Some people only see one Broadway show in their entire lives. And although many shows are representative of the truly splendid nature of the Great White Way, if it had been this lackluster production of Grease, I would truly feel sorry for that person. Just my thoughts on the issue.
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