JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to Play Final Performance on Broadway July 1 'Unless Business Improves'
#2
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:10pm
Wow. I thought it would last a little longer.
#3
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:11pm
ok? This is a weird closing announcement...
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#4
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:12pm
Yeah, unless business improves, to what?
It was 6 hours, I don't even like to have sex and eat bacon for 6 hours.
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#5
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!)
(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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#6
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! 
#7
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.
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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#8
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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#9
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:17pm
Improving based on....
#10
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:23pm
Recast the show.
Smoke bomb!
#11
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:24pm
I don't get these "threatening" closing notices…"BUY TICKETS OR ELSE!".
#12
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.
#13
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:25pm
Yet those damn witches are still singing 8 times a week! Just kidding.
#14
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.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#15
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?
#16
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.
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.
#17
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.
I agree with you on all accounts, especially about JCS vs. Godspell.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#18
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:42pm
uh duh.
Did this last as long as the last revival? What a season of epic failures.
Did this last as long as the last revival? What a season of epic failures.
#19
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:44pm
The last one lasted 161 performances. A few weeks longer than this one.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#20
Posted: 6/19/12 at 7:54pm
heathens.
that's the problem!
that's the problem!
#21
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.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#22
Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:10pm
Just saying…solution…
#23
Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:14pm
Clearly the theatre community just loves Mormonism more.
#24
Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:22pm
Or the productions were just bad.
#25
Posted: 6/19/12 at 8:25pm
Now prepare ye-selves for a deluge of children's musicals.
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