HONEYMOON IN VEGAS struggling on Broadway — Page 12

Good grief, the last thing this show needed, injury added to insult.

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I just tried to book tickets and noticed on Ticketmaster that this show is only selling tickets through May? Is that typical?

just looked at On The Town and even they are selling through September!

I wouldn't say every opportunity. They did the Today Show.

Dreamworks was telling the cast of Shrek that they were going to keep the show open until the fourth movie opened in theaters and build off of that publicity. The cast was hearing this right up until the closing notice was posted five months before Shrek Forever After actually opened.

The cast are rarely going to get an honest line from the producers (no point in giving them a reason to start jumping ship). In the rare instance that they do they are (usually) smart enough to know not to go on social media and tell the whole world their show is sinking.

It's great that the show has champions, but the realistic fact is people aren't wanting to see this show, and the few that do aren't willing to pay enough to keep it running. The reviews, which some assured us would begin drawing people in, have apparently done the opposite, as ticket sales have only declined further and further since they opened.

I think the reason the tourists are staying away is that they see Vegas in the title and think it's what the rest of the theatre community thought of Spider-Man.

Meaning we all saw Spider-man as an over the top spectacle with little to offer outside of the visuals.
They may think the same of HiV.

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Hey Hairspray she was tweeting me back!!

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"if Brynn is actually right about this then the producers that are producing this should not produce anything on Broadway again."

Frank Wildhorn should be sending them some demos! Maybe even Jekyll & Hyde to be revived again next season starring Tony Danza!!

"We're not going anywhere any time soon! It's February. It's hard for everybody this time of year, every year.xx"

Unfortunately, they've been doing consistently poorly since they started, through the busy holiday times, through good weather and bad weather, and in spite of a Times rave.

If they are gambling on the major new musicals all falling short, like last year, that is a risky gambit.

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Audience Extras ticket to "Honeymoon in Vegas": $8.00

Time Warner PPV for "The Last Five Years": $6.99.

Better Jason Robert Brown show? The cheaper one. Plus no cab fare, no -10 degree weather, and no Tony Danza. Win, win, win.

I, for one, expected a lot more because of Brantley's Papermill review. I was grossly disappointed. I thought David Josefsberg saved this show. When he was on stage, I was happy. That's it. Perhaps people are pissed that Brantley made this sound like the greatest musical since West Side Story when it's really only on par with The Wedding Singer. Everyone is tired of Brantley's posturing as though he has the power to close a show or keep it running indefinitely. Just desserts? I dunno. Just a theory. But it's how I feel!

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"Perhaps people are pissed that Brantley made this sound like the greatest musical since West Side Story when it's really only on par with The Wedding Singer."

This theory would only apply if people were actually going to see it, but by all the numbers, many are outright avoiding it instead. Possible reasons for that were explained here/elsewhere, but it's pretty safe to say tourists trekking to NYC simply aren't interested in even getting to the Wedding Singer comparison stage.

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I am not actually comparing this show to The Wedding SInger (which I liked more than most people, BTW!). I am simply saying that it's "okay" not "great," which is how Brantley made it sound.

Anyway...maybe tourists don't think of Danza as a "draw"; they're not interested in "Vegas," which is why they're vacationing in NYC; they didn't like the movie; or they never heard of the movie. Who knows? All I can say is I didn't think much of it myself. But then again, I LOVED "On The Town" to pieces, and it's been having a hard time too...even though it made just about everyone's "Top Ten" list.

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