Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#0Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:06amPerhaps we could have The Merman, The Mary Martin, etc. Others? Updated On: 8/17/04 at 10:06 AM
#1re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:08amThe Ziemba.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:31amThe Michael Crawford Theater
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#3re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:34am
SHERYL CROW in EVITA
Now playing at the Melanie Griffith Theatre. Call Telecharge for Tickets.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#4re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:41amMatt_G, you jest and yet......
#5re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:47amMatt, don't even put that stuff out into the universe, buddy.
#6re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:48amBesides, from here on out, they're all going to be corporation names anyway, as horrid as that is.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#7re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:49amBroadway is dead, kids. Sorry, but it's true.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#8re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:53amDying, I think. Not dead. Not yet. Not until what you posted earlier in this thread actually comes to pass. Then it will be dead as dogsh1t.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#9re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:57amBroadway died when a show was not doing too well, and the box office still turned people away and refused to sell them tickets.
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#10re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:19am
You're more likely to get names along the lines of current corporate sponsorships of The American Airlines Theatre, The Ford Center for the Performing Arts, etc. than more renamings for bygone stars.
Besides, which theatres would you want to rename?
#11re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:23amDoes anyone else want to build the Raul Esparza Temple in Times Square? A theater is not worthy of his god-like talents.
Derek2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/10/04
#12re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:25am
Here's some ideas
The Marshall Theatre (named after Rob and Kathleen (Damn Yankees, LSOH, Wonderful Town, Cabaret...))maybe in a few more years...
The Irving Berlin Theatre (that one's easy...)
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#13re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:28amMatt_G, are you STILL bitter about your Broadway box office experience?
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#14re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:35am
Yes, as a matter of fact I am. And I've had the opportunity recently to discuss it with some very important people. I don't think you guys have any idea how mad that made me. We're not talking about one show here. We're talking about 4 of them. All with box office numbers that were WAY below what I'm sure they would have liked, and with less than half the house filled they were turning people away.
So I am bitter about it and I am glad these shows closed and are closing now.
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#15re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:42amOne wonders why they haven't renamed the Music Box Theatre in honor of Berlin, as it belongs to the Berlin estate...
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#16re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:45amWell, Berlin & Porter should have houses named after them. I'm sure Sondheim will also, someday.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#17re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:48am
Matt_G: "Broadway died when a show was not doing too well, and the box office still turned people away and refused to sell them tickets."
This sounds like what was discussed in that famous book THE SEASON (can't remember the author). Box Office staff would do anything they could to discourage a sale to a struggling show in order to close it and get it out of their theatre as quickly as possible. The only shows the Box Office staff could "make money on" (wink-wink) was a hit show.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#18re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:49am
Coming Spring 2005:
Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Joey Fatone
in the Barry and Fran Weissler production of
"Sugar"
At the ELTON JOHN Center for the Performing Arts
#19re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:07pmMost likely, we'll have The Coca-Cola, The AT&T, or The Dell before we have any real names. Corporate sponsorship has replaced dignity with advertising.
#20re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:17pmMatt, maybe if you showed up at the box office (un)dressed like your icon, you'd get one of those queens behind the glass to show you more love.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#21re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:22pmLondon's West End is getting a Sondheim Theatre next year.
mamamia sammy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#22re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:40pmidiot.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#23re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:47pmWhat about the MAMMA MIA! theatre? They kept the original name but added CADILLAC. That seems fair but it's too long a name for a theatre.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#24re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:59pm
They should have renamed the Imperial after Les Miz somehow
Same for CATS (The Trevor Nunn Theater?)
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