#1
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:06am
Perhaps we could have The Merman, The Mary Martin, etc. Others?
Updated On: 8/17/04 at 10:06 AM
Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
#2
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:08am
The Ziemba.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#3
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:31am
The Michael Crawford Theater
#4
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:34am
SHERYL CROW in EVITA
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Now playing at the Melanie Griffith Theatre. Call Telecharge for Tickets.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#5
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:41am
Matt_G, you jest and yet......
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#6
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:47am
Matt, don't even put that stuff out into the universe, buddy.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#7
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:48am
Besides, from here on out, they're all going to be corporation names anyway, as horrid as that is.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#8
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:49am
Broadway is dead, kids. Sorry, but it's true.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#9
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:53am
Dying, 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.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#10
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:57am
Broadway died when a show was not doing too well, and the box office still turned people away and refused to sell them tickets.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#11
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?
Besides, which theatres would you want to rename?
#12
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:23am
Does anyone else want to build the Raul Esparza Temple in Times Square? A theater is not worthy of his god-like talents.
'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston
#13
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...)
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...)
#14
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:28am
Matt_G, are you STILL bitter about your Broadway box office experience?
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#15
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.
So I am bitter about it and I am glad these shows closed and are closing now.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#16
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:42am
One wonders why they haven't renamed the Music Box Theatre in honor of Berlin, as it belongs to the Berlin estate...
#17
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:45am
Well, Berlin & Porter should have houses named after them. I'm sure Sondheim will also, someday.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#18
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.
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.
#19
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
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
#20
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:07pm
Most 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.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#21
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:17pm
Matt, 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.
'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston
#22
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:22pm
London's West End is getting a Sondheim Theatre next year.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#23
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:40pm
idiot.
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#24
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:47pm
What 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.
#25
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:59pm
They should have renamed the Imperial after Les Miz somehow
Same for CATS (The Trevor Nunn Theater?)
Same for CATS (The Trevor Nunn Theater?)
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