JERSEY BOYS Will Return to NY for Off-Bway Run — Page 2

JSquared2 said: "Itonlytakesajourney said: "Are they really doing this? The show literally just closed earlier this year. Why would I pay to see a downsized production of a show that closed seven months ago??



Umm... maybe because it's not all about you?





It isn't. Wasn't trying to make it sound like that, there are lots of people tired of Jersey Boys -\_(?)_/-. I'm sure this'll find its audience, but I just think it's a cheap thing to do?

I wonder if this will hurt Bronx Tale's sales at all. They've sort of been marketing it as "the thing you can see instead of Jersey Boys"

JBroadway said: "I wonder if this will hurt Bronx Tale's sales at all. They've sort of been marketing it as "the thing you can see instead of Jersey Boys"



Funny you mention that. In Shubert Alley, there's A Bronx Tale poster saying "A combination of Jersey Boys and West Side Story". I definitely think when people find out that Jersey Boys is back, they'll drop Bronx Tale cold. Why see the show marketing itself as a mashup of it and a classic when you can see the real thing?

JBroadway said: "I wonder if this will hurt Bronx Tale's sales at all. They've sort of been marketing it as "the thing you can see instead of Jersey Boys"

I think it will tap into the TKTS crowd which supplies alot of A Bronx Tale's audience - the audience who likes to relive this subject matter would also probably rather re-listen to top ten hits than a new score. It may also tap into some of Beautiful's audience. It will certainly test out the size of the 50's/60's inclined crowd.

"

Is this wanted by people? Perhaps it be like an Avenue Q thing and just run forever.

HAHA. That made me laugh. Never saw, never interested. And the movie of it? Heard it was a SH!T SHOW.

I think it's great! Having this running there and Avenue Q will only help the smaller shows struggling to find an audience at New World. More foot traffic is good.

I find it interesting that basically all of the companies of Jersey Boys shut down around the same time. Vegas, London, NYC. Kind of weird they just pulled the plug on all of them.

I’ve never seen the show. All my friends (including a number of Theatre snobs) that have seen it loved it...some, surprisingly so. I guess it’s like me having a great time at Mamma Mia years ago when I was dragged to it...

I hope audiences will find it off-Broadway. I guess tourists found Avenue Q off-Broadway, so maybe tourists will discover off-Broadway with this, too.

Has anyone caught it off-broadway yet? Any major differences from broadway?

I saw the show tonight with Francine swinging for Lorraine. It worked out fine, though seemed cheap having one woman playing both, but still was okay. It's most noticeable when there's only two women singing my boyfriend's back. The line is changed from "four guys, three girls" to two girls.

The show is in good shape, the four leads are all quite good and the energy was high being in the intimate venue.

However, the lights during the number where they're playing to an audience in the back of the stage where blindingly bright. Most of the audience was shielding their eyes. And even if you tried to look it was so bright you couldn't even see them. Don't remember it being that bright on broadway, they should fix it.

Updated On: 2/19/18 at 05:17 AM

AntV said: "However, the lights during the number where they're playing to an audience in the back of the stage where blindingly bright. Most of the audience was shielding their eyes. And even if you tried to look it was so bright you couldn't even see them. Don't remember it being that bright on broadway, they should fix it."

The Dawn lighting thing has always seemed to be inconsistent from production to production. I seem to remember they were way brighter in London and Vegas than they ever were on Broadway, but that's part of why it didn't really surprise me that off-Broadway would be similarly too bright.