It's official: Brooklyn to have a 60-city tour in 2006!

The Denver Post Reports:

"The Denver-born Broadway tuner "Brooklyn the Musical' was shut out of last week's Tony nominations, but director-producer Jeff Calhoun is undaunted. He plans a 60-city tour next year, 45 of which already are booked.

For now, Denver is not on the itinerary. Randy Weeks, president of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, said it's unlikely it will be. "But they broke through the reviews and found an audience, so who knows?" he said."

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Updated On: 5/16/05 at 10:37 AM

haha! oh, it's not a joke? sorry, i'm still bitter b/c i foolishly paid full price and service charges to see an early preview. i'll never make that mistake again!

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Well, good for "Brooklyn." I think it's great. Everyone who said, "This show won't last a month," it's still on Broadway several months later. So, people continue to insult. Then it was, "They'll never have a tour, never." News of a tour, people continue to insult and what not. Just leave it alone already. If you hate a show so much, what's the point of reading every post about it, just to make the same lame remarks? Just seems to be a waste of time, at least to me.

-Vincent

Saw it.
Liked it.
REALLY surprised it's getting a tour.

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Wait, do the math here... is there two or three different touring groups?

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It will probably be a non Equity tour that does mostly one - two night gigs.

As far as Wildhorn is concerned, the fact that his shows are still produced is one of the oddest phenomena in the history of Broadway. Beyond critics not liking them, given that every single one of them has flopped, audiences clearly (at least in New York) aren't too crazy about them either. It's been estimated (I believe by Variety) that Jekyll & Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel and The Civil War lost $20-25 million combined on Broadway alone and last year's Dracula also lost its entire $7 million investment.

His work had been subsidied by the Dutch billionaire Joop van den Ende, but even he has grown tired of the losses, pulled the plug and won't be financing anymore shows. We'll see what the fate of Wildhorn's future work will be.

As for Brooklyn, it hasn't returned so much as a dime of it's original investment so far -- perhaps they'll recoup some of the losses on the road.

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I guess they're hoping that the show's reception will be better outside New York. Make it non-Equity and they might even make a little money.

If a producing entity is going to do a "non-union" tour, then make it truly "non" and use non-union crews and musicans also. I reckon the AFM and the IA would have a few very choice words to say about that.

Why only pay the actors less than scale?

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As for Wildhorn, his shows have always been extremely popular in Europe. Dracula opened to very positive reviews in Switzerland and has a great advanced ticket sales. VanJoop is still producing the show over there. Wildhorn's newest show Cyrano is being produced in London with an opening of next spring. So yes, while Wildhorn shows do not do well in N.Y. outside of NY he is extremely well liked and respected.

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Too many shows on Broadway for me to see this one, as I can only go back East once a year. But as it'll surely be coming somewhere around L.A., I'll give it a chance. Enough people like it to justify my seeing it. Wonder when the tour schedule will be released?

That's great! (Yes, I saw Brooklyn and yes I enjoyed it)

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If Brooklyn gets picked up in the Broadway Series seasons, it could recoup since they have a high rate of annual season ticket renewals.

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