Idol: The Musical Closes Off-Broadway After 1 Performance. What a Shocker!- Page 2

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:07am

Did anyone pay anything, much less $60, to see this? I was assuming most of the 20 or so people in the audience with me Sunday afternoon were comps.

[antonijan]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 4:06am

I want a playbill from that show!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 5:14am

I guess this means no cast album

The show now joins the ranks of its bigger brothers on Broadway who opened & closed the same night

Here's Where I belong
Gantry
Billy

[antonijan]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 6:22am

Interesting pics:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=19792
https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=20630

[Corine2]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 7:08am

I went to the opening. It was one of those shows that you can't look away. It made Prymate look good. You all know how much I loved that show.

[Corine2]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 7:08am

PS: The cast were all very good. The show however was one of the worst trainwrecks I have ever seen. Sad but true.
It was very offensive and tacky.
Updated On: 8/14/07 at 07:08 AM

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:52am

I want a playbill from that show!

Ha! I'll be sure to hold on to it for future ebay purposes. But it wasn't a Playbill -- just a paper program.

eta: And why is everyone saying this show was Off-Broadway? It was Off-Off-Broadway. Updated On: 8/14/07 at 10:52 AM

[Kringas]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:08am

Sorry we had to endure all those ads.

Me too! Somehow they nefariously managed to break through the Firefox Adblocker.

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:03pm

The ads also got through my pop-up blockers, but that's another story, nevermind, anyway.

As always, I feel sorry for the cast and creative team, and I hope that they move on to bigger and better things, but this show sounds like an unredeemable disaster.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 1:10pm

The pictures make it look interesting at least? They used canned music? That SUCKS.

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 1:12pm

Yes, and it was hard to hear -- for the actors, too, apparently.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 3:51pm

where do they usually put an orchestra in the 45th?

[WhatYouOwn27]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 4:08pm

JulianHookBucks has a point, has anyone seen that theatre? It's TINY!!

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 4:27pm

the building was not originally meant to be a theatre. It's a masonic lodge in a townhouse that is re-configured into two theatres... painted black... and the backstage area is an enclosed fire escape. like... a stairwell... it's SO hard to work around... it's just not meant to be a theatre... not that that is an excuse for this show... but.. it's really hard.