Good news for THE PRODUCERS

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:02pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=12247

YAY! I sure hope this helps ticket sales AND the morale/performance of the cast.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:05pm

It's cool that he's back on Broadway, but how on earth would you expect him to help ticket sales?

[mrs felciano]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:06pm

Am I the only person who wouldn't care if this closed?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:07pm

Absolutely not. I think it needs to go.

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:08pm

same here
id feel bad for the cast (especially Renee Klapmeyer in the ensemble- so hot), but i think this show has had its time, and should end its run soon
yeah

[Mythus]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:08pm

I love Lee Roy Reams. I saw him on the tour in D.C., he's a fantastic Roger.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:11pm

i think it was great in the time it opened..but its about time another show comes in to the St. James...there was so much hype for the show...but I was not blown away when I saw it.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:14pm

I did not start this thread to have it become an "I want it to close" thread.

It does not "need to go." It needs new blood and support.

Lee Roy is a great performer and is second to none to Gary Beach as Roger.

Updated On: 9/16/06 at 02:14 PM

[C is for Company]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:35pm

This may be good news, but I doubt with be the new blood this show needs.

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:37pm

I love the show, but I really think it should just close. The ticket sales are gonna get worse, and they might as well close while they still have some of their dignity.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:42pm

Oh, c'mon, people. It's frivulous fun, just what the tourist wants when he comes to see a Broadway play. If we're gonna start saying it should close because its time has passed, I can think of another musicsl down the street about a girl with green skin that shouldnt have lasted a single season.

I hope the new casting does help. As much as I really hated the film, the stage play is great fun and deserves a longer run.

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:43pm

Did you notice that those tourists you're talking about didn't help AT ALL during the summer?

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:47pm

Im sorry, was there a nightly poll?

"Will everyone from out of town please raise their hands?"

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 3:14pm

maybe is Ashley does well in Chicago...then she could be ULLA. just kidding

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:14pm

Sean Martin,

I don't think anyone is saying that THE PRODUCERS should close because it is frivilous fun. It should close because for the past several months, even during the height of the tourst season, its been under performing. Last week, in fact, its attendance percentage was the lowest on Broadway.

I don't care if the show is tourist friendly or not: people have stopped coming and Lee Roy Reems is not going to help ticket sales. When a show begins to lose money every week, it closes.

THE PRODUCERS has made a healthy profit, but apparently some of that profit has been used to off-set losses in Los Angeles and on the road. The show just never quite lived up to the early hype.


Updated On: 9/16/06 at 05:14 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:16pm

And whomever thinks that Lee Roy Reams is going to boost the box office is completely delusional.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:21pm

Lee Roy Reams won't boost ticket sales, but...

I think people are just bitter that the Producers won all the Tonys in 2001 which is why they want it to close so bad, EponineAmneris.

[SamIAm]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:21pm

Personally, I find this thread (and all the recent threads on the same topic) a little silly.

The producers are the ones who are losing or making money or breaking even and THEY will decide when the run is over and it is time to close the doors.

No matter whether you feel this or any show is overhyped or worth its salt, it isn't really a question of an audience member deciding whether a show should continue or be closed. If you don't like the show or feel it has worn out its welcome, DON'T GO SEE IT AGAIN. When the house is needed for some other show and/or the producers have played their last card, you will hear about a closing date.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:26pm

Sam, I think you need to chill out, buddy.

No one is acting like they have the authority to close the show down, and no one is acting like their opinion should be the end-all-be-all for the show.

It's merely our opinion. It is my opinion that this show is on it's way out. Not because it's overhyped, not because I don't like it, not because it won all the Tony's, not for any of those banal reasons.

Obviously, the producers of show are the ones to close the show. Not us on the board. Wow, what a brilliant, original, and absolutely revelatory statement...

[AshleyBrownFan123]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:31pm

Unless Lane and Broderick come back, I bet it will close in a year. Billy Elliott can have the St. james, because High Fidelity could be the next Rent.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:32pm

I think it will close within a year as well, if not sooner.

BILLY ELLIOT already has the Imperial.

HIGH FIDELITY is moving into the Imperial with the understanding that, if they are a success, they need to either close or find another theatre when BILLY ELLIOT comes over.

There's no changing it.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:33pm

"The show just never quite lived up to the early hype."

I contend people didn't want to see "The Producers," they wanted to see Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane in "The Producers." I have NEVER understood how the show has run so long. Brooks' score is un-original and derivative. "The Full Monty" SHOULD be the show from that season that should be still running.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:34pm

Has the show recouped?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:35pm

Of course.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:39pm

Really, what the Producers needs to keep running is another duo with as much star power and chemistry as Lane and Broderick - that's the only thing I can think of that would revive the show - and the chances of that happening are none to negative.