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Posted: 2/23/09 at 11:31am
I don’t like to get anyone’s hopes up by posting false rumors, but I consider this a reliable source. It also explains WHY the producers elected to close the show quickly rather than keeping it going with the faint hope that it would find an audience.
It makes me think that with shows like this maybe the recording should be done first to get audiences familiar with a show not pre-sold by a previous movie version.
This from today's Peter Filichia's Diary.
It was last Saturday afternoon, 1:50 p.m. at the Booth Theatre, where I was sitting in my fourth row on the aisle seat. Suddenly a man came down that aisle and crouched next to me: Jack M. Dalgleish, one of the producers of The Story of My Life.
“Peter, thank you for coming,” he said solemnly, before adding that, yes, he and his co-producers were closing the new musical after a few performances. They felt that the money they hadn’t spent could be put to better use by making a cast album that could spur further productions; that would give the investors some return.
It makes me think that with shows like this maybe the recording should be done first to get audiences familiar with a show not pre-sold by a previous movie version.
This from today's Peter Filichia's Diary.
It was last Saturday afternoon, 1:50 p.m. at the Booth Theatre, where I was sitting in my fourth row on the aisle seat. Suddenly a man came down that aisle and crouched next to me: Jack M. Dalgleish, one of the producers of The Story of My Life.
“Peter, thank you for coming,” he said solemnly, before adding that, yes, he and his co-producers were closing the new musical after a few performances. They felt that the money they hadn’t spent could be put to better use by making a cast album that could spur further productions; that would give the investors some return.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Updated On: 2/23/09 at 11:31 AM
