Yeah, FOLLIES was initially scheduled for the normal Thurs-Sunday run. I doubt it would have sold out if it had announced a run as long as GYPSY's. Even with their one-day extension and with so many people wanting tickets, I was able to get an orchestra seat for the Sat. matinee about two hours before curtain.
FOLLIES and GYPSY don't have any chandeliers falling on the audience or green divas lifted as Act I ends so I doubt they'll ever sell-out during long runs.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"