Has shows ever been cancled?

[BroadwayBoy2]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 9:57am

Has a Broadway Theatre ever had to shut down for a certain time period , not due to the show being terrible, but because of the heat not working, or they lost power, etc? Has anyone herd of this ever happening to a broadway theatre?

[AC126748]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 9:59am

Well, every show was cancelled during the blackout of 2003.

[snazzier]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:20am

Brooklyn had to cancel a performance because they couldn't find someone to play Paradice.
(I think that's true...)

[Craig]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:21am

Musician's strike a few years back

[Princeton78]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:29am

9/11

Also..when a show revolves around a star and the star is out, show's have gone black.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:34am

Was it Urinetown that had to shut down becuse something fell through the roof of the theater?

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:42am

Many shows were cancelled (and closed) instantly or within a few weeks after the stock market crash of 1929.

Several union strikes over the years have caused shows to be cancelled without warning. Didn't that happen to the original run of "She Loves Me" or "Plain & Fancy" (I forget which)?

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:56am

JoeKv99, unless something happened I'm not aware of, Cabaret had to close down for something like 6 weeks (and almost for good) due to a construction accident 43rd St.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 11:00am

That was it! Sorry-- Cabaret! I remembered the story only vaguely but did recall something falling from an adjoining building.

[suzycat]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 11:20am

Both Dracula and Urinetown had to cancel perfs due to water leaks.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 11:31am

When Hugh Jackman had to promote his new movie, they canceled The Boy From Oz.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 11:39am

Early on in Thoroughly Modern Millie's run, a performance was cancelled because Sutton Foster's understudy was not ready to go on yet.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:02pm

The Into the Woods revival had to delay its first preview because of waterleaks.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:19pm

Urinetown...leaks...

That made me laugh.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:26pm

Little Sally: Officer, there's some spillage in the audience.
Lockstock: D**mit, now they REALLY won't wanna see the show.
Sally: I know. Well, life already sucks, so this is nothing new. But next time I want to be the princess.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:26pm

Gosh, there have been a lot of water leaks!

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:31pm

A performance of Proof had to be canceled when Len Cariou's understudy, probably thinking that Cariou would continue his history of not missing performances, couldn't be contacted when Cariou couldn't get back in time from a movie shoot. I thought that understudies were more or less required to be around a phone at a certain time each day just in case. But that understudy wasn't on that day.

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:48pm

"When Hugh Jackman had to promote his new movie, they canceled The Boy From Oz."

one of the saddest days of my life.

so help me, i WILL see that man perform live!
<3

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:54pm

Ah.

Much better.

[PottstownTeacher]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:00pm

Early in it's run, 2 (I think) performances of SIDE SHOW were cancelled because Emily Skinner was ill and Lauren Kennedy wasn't ready to go on. That was back when they were toying with the idea that if either Alice or Emily were out, then BOTH standbys would go on together.

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:22pm

^ Did not know that about SIDE SHOW. Interesting.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:23pm

The Brooklyn one is true. I remember hearing that the flu was going around the cast. Ramona was out and so was the understudies. I heard at one performance one understudy had to go on with a script.

[Mamie]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:44pm

I'm currently reading "Before the Parade Passes By", the biography of Gower Champion. They mentioned that Mary Martin had become ill and was hospitalized for a week. They cancelled all the performances that week because both she and Robert Preston had it written in their contracts that they would only perform with each other. They decided it was better to cancel than to try and put on a 2-person show without either of the stars.

[snazzier]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:50pm

Thank you, wonderwaiter!

Yeah, I remember the script one... they flew in the woman who played Paradice in Denver and she had the script during the performance. I just wasn't sure if they had cancelled the matinee.

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:03pm

THE GIRL WHO CAME TO SUPPER(1963), Noel Coward's final show, cancelled a performance because the star, Jose Ferrer, was out of town and couldn't get to the theatre because of a snow storm. For some reason they didn't use the stand-by. Now that's trivia for you.

The show was a flop financially, running 113 performances, but I loved the show, seeing it many times and 2nd acting it some 6 times during my drinking days. It co-starred Florence Henderson who was nothing like her image as a goody goody on The Brady Bunch. She had a great singing voice and was very glamorous. Its CD is hard to come by.

Updated On: 11/25/06 at 02:03 PM