JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:09pm

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:10pm

Wow. I thought it would last a little longer.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:11pm

ok? This is a weird closing announcement...

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:12pm

Yeah, unless business improves, to what?

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:13pm

Didnt' we just go thru this with Godspell? Are they hoping for divine intervention?


(Although I love that BWW had to delete the other post about the same thing-- although without any proof -- just to be able to announce!)

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:15pm

Ha! Godspell gets the last laugh! It might be closing at a lost but lasted 3 times longer!

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:16pm

I don't understand why they put the qualifier there.

It's closing. There would be no reason to expect that business would somehow dramatically improve over the next 12 days. Besides, even if it somehow miraculously did, no one is buying tickets now for after July 1, and if they suddenly extend, their advance would be horrendous.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:17pm

I think that goes without saying as to why it is closing, just makes it sound even more embarrassing as to why they are closing.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:17pm

Improving based on....

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:23pm

Recast the show.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:24pm

I don't get these "threatening" closing notices…"BUY TICKETS OR ELSE!".

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:24pm

Very telling of our culture to lose. Leap of faith. Godspell and Jesus Christ superstar in one month.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:25pm

Yet those damn witches are still singing 8 times a week! Just kidding.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:29pm

If there's one more Jesus musical next year, can we ban it from getting any Tony nominations? This crop this year pretty much worked themselves out that way but who knows what will happen in the future.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:35pm

I think JCS and Godspell cancelled each other out. Godspell was doing ok, not great, until JCS came along. Maybe if JCS opened next year, both would have enjoyed longer runs. Thoughts?

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:36pm

Yes, this, GODSPELL, and LEAP OF FAITH all closed at a loss because they have to do with religion. Not because they weren't good productions. Yup. That's it.

And I wasn't aware this show was "competing" with GODSPELL to see who gets the "last laugh." JCS looked like a flawless masterpiece compared to GODSPELL.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:39pm

^I was being facetious, not sure about everyone else.

I agree with you on all accounts, especially about JCS vs. Godspell.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:42pm

uh duh.

Did this last as long as the last revival? What a season of epic failures.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:44pm

The last one lasted 161 performances. A few weeks longer than this one.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:54pm

heathens.
that's the problem!

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:05pm

Out of curiosity I just compared the cumulative grosses for both shows. Godspell grossed $10,800,419 (which is 39.86% of its potential for the run). and Jesus Christ Superstar grossed $9,699,143 (which is 51.76% of its potential for its run). I think it's interesting we had both of these shows during the same season, and neither did very well. It will probably be a very long time before we see another revival of either show.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:10pm

Just saying…solution…

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:14pm

Clearly the theatre community just loves Mormonism more.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:22pm

Or the productions were just bad.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'

Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:25pm

Now prepare ye-selves for a deluge of children's musicals.