Les Miserables limited?
Les Miserables limited?
John4763
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#0Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/19/06 at 10:29pmSo if Les Mis is a limited run, does that mean it expects to recoup everything in 6months? So it must be a pretty cheap production?
#1re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/19/06 at 10:32pmyea right... like it's going to stay open for JUST 6 months...
::bust a move::
mrs felciano
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/06
#2re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/19/06 at 10:34pmIt's not going to be a limited run. No way.
friedrichVT
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#3re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/19/06 at 10:46pmits not limited...its a ploy to get the public to buy tickets now. If there's demand,they'll supply.They'll run as long as it makes money.
#4re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/19/06 at 11:15pmDoes anyone know if they will have a cast recording with this cast??
mrs felciano
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/06
#5re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/19/06 at 11:23pmThe cast recording thing has been discussed but I'm not sure if it was ever established if there will be one. I sure hope so.
#6re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/19/06 at 11:27pm
This will be a limited run.
People are overestimating the staying power of this show.
The fall season has some amazing shows...NEW shows.
Les Miz will be a fun revival. But it has a virtually unknown cast to tourists who will probably want to see other things.
Please don't think that Les Miz is returning for a multi-year run.
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COOOOLkid
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#7re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/19/06 at 11:56pm
I'd be so disappointed if it doesn't extend its run, though... 
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#8re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 1:55amFOAnatic unless its someone big who has been eiather in film or tv then the name won't attract tourists. almost every show on Broadway has an unknown cast to tourists. The fact that this is Les Miserables is what is going to want people to go see it. Even on Broadway.com when they had a fall preview they said about les miz the following. "it is only scheduled to play six months but something tells us...." It is clear that they are going to extend it. The sixth month run sold out in a matter of a couple of days. I think that there is a great chance of it at least extending maybe being another open end run
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#9re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 7:36amI still think anything's possible with the run of this production. Though probably if I don't get tickets it will close and if I get tickets it will end up extending with my luck.
#10re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 8:03am
I think that anything is possible with this run of LES MIZ. The show is intensely and immensely popular. If the people want tickets, they will suppply them.
I hope- and expect- that they will extend 
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John4763
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#11re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 8:03am
But what I'm getting at is this : if the producer plans a show to be a limited run, then they'd be stupid to spend as much money on it as they would on an open-ended run.
Les Mis, as I recall, is a big expensive show. So have they toned it down to reduce costs for the "limited" run?
#12re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 8:06amChildren, this is the touring production of LES MIS making a 6-month stop in New York City. It's not an entirely new reconceived revival of LES MIS.
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Updated On: 9/20/06 at 08:06 AM
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#13re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 8:06amNo, they havan't toned anything down for this run. From what we know, it will be an exact replica of the show as it was previously seen.
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#14re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 8:30amWanna Be A Foster, the thing is that the only thig they did was use the tour set. That doesn't not mean that the tour is just making a six month run and then its gone. The national tour of Annie is making a stop at the theatre at madison square garden. That doesn't mean they are billing it as a revival or as a new off broadway production. They made it clear that the tour was stopping in nyc end of story. Camron Macentosh sp? has not made it so clear as to weather or not he is going to extend this or keep it as just a sixth month run. Keep in mind, tickets sold out fast because this is a show most people thing should not have closed.
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#15re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 8:41am
In summary: officially, it's a closed run of six months. However, MANY people on this board are highly cynical about that. ^_^
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Broadway Star Joined: 2/13/06
#16re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:21pmI am hoping they extend it to at least to the Tony awards, if it is not planned to go past the Tony's(it is close to it). That way the cast can perform at the Tony's, I imagine they would probably do "One Day More" or combine it with "At the End of the Day" like they did last time.
mrs felciano
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/06
#17re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:31pmWanna be a foster - No. This is not a touring production. It's a brand new cast.
#18re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:38pm
it's a totally new cast.
and I sort of doubt about a cast recording. I mean, how many are out already? 4 or 5? maybe more? OLC, OBC, Complete Symophic, 10th. any more?
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#19re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:41pm
The new cast is only attractive to hard-core theatre fans.
LES MIS, MISS SAIGON, and CATS had no stars either. Tourists didn't care - the shows were bigger than anyone in them, and they ran for years on end with virtually no stars. LES MIS will run.
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#20re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:54pm
The only thing this production has in common with the (now-closed) tour are a handful of cast members and parts of the set and props.
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Updated On: 9/20/06 at 03:54 PM
#21re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:58pmBut how big of a deal is it to make a recording? If they could make money off of it...
#22re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 5:01pmWell Mackintosh loves money, and they would definitely afford to make it, but do we need a 98th recording of this show?
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#23re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 5:13pmWill the tour start up again once the NYC show closes, or is the tour done for good?
#24re: Les Miserables limited?
Posted: 9/20/06 at 5:15pmThere are rumors of a non-Equity tour starting once Broadway is closed (and then they can use the set).
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