HONEYMOON IN VEGAS struggling on Broadway — Page 26

I agree that the hypothesized strategy is foolish (unless it somehow, freakishly, pays off).

@ljay889, I got Left Orchestra row Q seat 27; which was all the way on the end.

"Mezz was more than half empty on Saturday night, when I checked on Ticketmaster hours before the show."

Sadly this doesn't surprise me at all.

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Updated On: 3/9/15 at 11:28 AM

Disclaimer: I haven't seen the show

Honeymoon will probably get nominated for something (if the review had any truth in it), but I suspect the 15+ shows opening in the next six weeks will swallow up any air in the room in terms of marketing. Likely Honeymoon will not have the means to keep itself above the noise.

If they make it to nominations, they'll do something similar to 'Bridges of Madison County'. Give it a week or two, watch the advance, and likely close.

What they are doing is risky, but not unprecedented. Gentleman's guide laid low throughout the season last year (albeit in a smaller theatre), picked up the Tony and gained traction. If the producers believe in their product that much and it's worth it for them to make the gamble, then who can fault them for that? (Besides their investors)

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Updated On: 3/9/15 at 12:20 PM

Gentleman's Guide was making more money at this time last year than Honeymoon is now, and it's a much smaller cast, theater, and orchestra. They also did reasonably well over the holidays in 2013 and probably weren't hemorrhaging money in the same way that Honeymoon has to be.

They also opened in a much weaker/less buzzy season and gradually picked up steam with word of mouth and with the Tony nominations. Honeymoon has been performing for 4 months with no change in grosses even over the lucrative holiday weeks in December.

13: 22 previews - 105 performances
Bridges: 37 previews - 100 performances
Parade: 35 previews - 85 performances
Urban Cowboy: 26 previews - 60 performances

Congrats to Honeymoon on having its 61st performance on March 8 (I believe), moving past Cowboy on the JRB list of shows.

Um, Phil - you mean Honeymoon didn't have its 61st performance?

Phillypinto, did you finally see the show? I think we would all like to know what you thought, oh and what did you think of the book, oh and was the theatre close to or full?

Philly03--I think you misapprehend the situation. The only "they" involved in Tony Danza and his people; everyone else washed their hands of this ages ago. So unless Danza wants to go on tour (and I doubt he does), that's not gonna happen. Whatever faith the producers had in Danza before the show came in, they have long since processed reality and would never bet on him on the road, even if he did. Sadly, I think what this is about is that he knows this is the end of the road, and he is willing to spend huge amounts of money paving a few extra miles.

So is it Danza himself spending like $250K or more a week to keep this open? Or blind friends of his loaning the production money? Obviously the "reserve fund" was swallowed up in the first month or two. I guess those never-ending TAXI residuals come in handy.

the largest investor in the production was the rich Rich family (of coffee creamer fame). I understand they are not still on this ride, and that all of the priority loans have been from or through Danza or his long time manager..

Saw the show, not the movie. Went because it was on TDF. It was fun, but much like Catch Me If You Can, it's cute, but not great. I started to get bored. Surprised this is not catching on with the tourists. But what do I know, I loved Bridges, and Big Fish.

They'll always have Phillypinto!

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