Les Mis to take the Imperial? High Fidelity to the Broadhurst?

So says a poster on ATC (and the rumor has been around for a while):

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=299016

No official announcement yet, though.

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Updated On: 8/23/06 at 06:20 PM

doesn't cameron want both his shows next to each other?

I would assume they care more about the money. Thus, moving Les Mis to a larger theatre makes sense.

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What would be behind the reason for the switch? I'm not from NY, is one theater bigger than the other? I've been inside the Broadhurst but never the Imperial.

Um. But I already have my tickets. What would happen?

The Imperial has about 300 more seats than the Broadhurst.

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I hope it stays at the Broadhurst so it will have Standing Room avaliable. If it switches to the Imperial it better have some sort of rush. Did it have rush in it's original run?

Heh, I love how one of the reasons they'd be likely to switch is for the larger house and the additional $$, and yet Mackintosh sounded so thrilled a few months ago to have a "more intimate" theatre like the Broadhurst.

This rumor seems like it could be true--it makes sense, it's not unheard of--and yet I wonder...if Les Mis was looking to switch to a bigger house purely for sales purposes, why wouldn't they just have decided earlier to pick any one of the bigger houses that are currently dark? Methinks people are just seeing that the Imperial is now open and they're deciding to dredge up old rumors. My point is just that if Les Mis were looking to switch puprely for monetary gain, they would have done so earlier and would have picked a place like the Palace rather than wait for the possibility of DRS closing to snatch up the Imperial.

Anyway, still could be true, just sayin'.

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VERY interesting.

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SDav wrote:

"If Les Mis was looking to switch to a bigger house purely for sales purposes, why wouldn't they just have decided earlier to pick any one of the bigger houses that are currently dark? Methinks people are just seeing that the Imperial is now open and they're deciding to dredge up old rumors. My point is just that if Les Mis were looking to switch puprely for monetary gain, they would have done so earlier and would have picked a place like the Palace rather than wait for the possibility of DRS closing to snatch up the Imperial."

Les Miz didn't switch earlier because none of the large musical houses have been available, and the Les Miz revival is planning to extend past a six month limited engagement, so the Palace was not an option. And although Mackintosh has had shows in Jujamcyn (Five Guys Named Moe) and Nederlander (Oklahoma!, Oliver!, Swan Lake) owned houses, his big four shows - Phantom, Les Miz, Cats and Miss Saigon - all played in Shubert owned theatres, so that may be a factor as well in why he would opt to move from one Shubert-owned theatre (the Broadhurst) to another (the Imperial).

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Updated On: 8/23/06 at 07:45 PM

I'm feeling the same way, folkyboy. this has potential to be a royal pain for both theatre-goers and box office employees alike!

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I am not sure if it is that easy to change to comparable seats. After tickets have been sold, they decided to eliminate the front row at the Imperial for THE BOY FROM OZ, supposedly for lighting problems reasons. Those seated in the original front row were given the seats for the new front row ( second row before) and those in the original second row were told to choose other dates or were assigned other seats in the theatre ( not 3rd row, which became the new second row). And the excahnges were only for the same theatre.

Updated On: 8/23/06 at 08:06 PM

maybe they should give us the same seats and then sell, what's left

ie row length are somewhat different, Broadhurst row A has fivem Imperial has 6, if i'm reading the charts correctly, so they should see the remaining 1

i just dont want to moved up a row but over 5, you know what i mean?

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