I don't know what their weekly expenses are, but the Scandalous weekly grosses surely must be well below their nut. Their highest gross so far - back in October - was $241,613. I wonder why they are keeping it running? They must be burning through whatever reserve they have. I'm glad for the actors though.
Like other religeous institutions, they wouold rather flush all that money down the toilet rather than using it for a good cause. They probably think it is a great musical! I read on another site that Krazy Kathie Lee on her tv show, compared her ****fest to other musicals that got bad reviews like Les Miz and Camelot!
Evic, she made the comparison tbis morning on her show. She seems to realize and have accepted the bad reviews. The "comparion" was just her and Hoda talking about other shows that goot bad reviews but did well.
I don't think Drunkie Lee got so rich by being stupid enough to invest in her own show. That's Taboo, right? But talking a church out of some loaves,she'd be good at that.
Meanwhile, turkey time had a very different meaning for the producers of Scandalous, the new musical biography of Aimee Semple McPherson with book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford. In its first full week since its Nov. 15 opening, the show scraped up a thin gruel of $194,511, less than 16 percent of its potential gross, and played to houses that were only 30.6 percent full. Even a presidential pardon is unlikely to save this one.
She should've researched how god-themed musicals do on Broadway, before spending her time, money or someone else's money into this mess. Sister Act, Godspell, Leap of Faith, Jesus Christ Superstar...all flopped last year! Duhhh.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
I disagree. I think Carolee Carmello's performance in this should be remembered despite the poor reception the show received. I still think Kathie Lee may fund a cast recording herself. She produced the cast recording for her last musical.
I can't imagine how they will not post closing notice tomorrow for Sunday of this week. Unless that FourSquare church really is crazy enough to funnel money in, and then I just feel bad for their parishioners who give money for crap like that (... actually wait, I already feel bad for their parishioners, but that's another story).
I would imagine Kathie Lee will fund a cast recording. I don't see this NOT getting an album.
However, I'm in the minority regarding Carolee - I think maybe with a better director and a better script (and a better sound designer), a performance could have been shaped here. But I found her exhausting to watch --- I don't fault her at all, but I don't think that a Tony nomination is warranted just for keeping the curtain up on a terrible show. Her performance has very little nuance, and the sound designer should be shot for the way he amplified her (already strident) voice to be literally painful to listen to.
^ I agree about Carolee. I'm a big fan of hers (she's the only reason I saw the show) but the material is so bad, she's practically embarrassing herself on stage.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
KLG is not producing this show. She wrote it. She has not invested ANY money into this production and has no plans to, that includes funding the cast album.
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