Has shows ever been cancled?
Has shows ever been cancled?
#1Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 9:57amHas 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?
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#1re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 9:59amWell, every show was cancelled during the blackout of 2003.
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#2re: Has shows ever been cancled?
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...)
#3re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:21amMusician's strike a few years back
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#4re: Has shows ever been cancled?
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.
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#5re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:34amWas it Urinetown that had to shut down becuse something fell through the roof of the theater?
#6re: Has shows ever been cancled?
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)?
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#7re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 10:56amJoeKv99, 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.
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#8re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 11:00amThat was it! Sorry-- Cabaret! I remembered the story only vaguely but did recall something falling from an adjoining building.
#9re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 11:20amBoth Dracula and Urinetown had to cancel perfs due to water leaks.
#10re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 11:31amWhen Hugh Jackman had to promote his new movie, they canceled The Boy From Oz.
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#11re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 11:39amEarly on in Thoroughly Modern Millie's run, a performance was cancelled because Sutton Foster's understudy was not ready to go on yet.
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#12re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:02pmThe Into the Woods revival had to delay its first preview because of waterleaks.
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#13re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:19pm
Urinetown...leaks...
That made me laugh.
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#14re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:26pm
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#15re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:26pmGosh, there have been a lot of water leaks!
#16re: Has shows ever been cancled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:31pmA 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.
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#17re: Has shows ever been cancled?
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!
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#18Have shows ever been cancelled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:54pm
Ah.
Much better.
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#19Have shows ever been cancelled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:00pmEarly 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.
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#20Have shows ever been cancelled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:22pm^ Did not know that about SIDE SHOW. Interesting.
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#21Have shows ever been cancelled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:23pmThe 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.
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#22Have shows ever been cancelled?
Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:44pmI'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.
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#23Have shows ever been cancelled?
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.
#24Have shows ever been cancelled?
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.
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