Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009

[commasplice]

Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#1

Posted: 12/5/07 at 1:07am

Performances set to begin March 25, 2009 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. More dates/cities to be announced.

More info (though not much else) at either of the below links

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=23497

https://www.playbill.com/news/article/113285.html

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#2

Posted: 12/5/07 at 1:11am

Congrats, MARY P!

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

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-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[lite2shine]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#2

Posted: 12/5/07 at 1:19am

I'm so excited. I hope it'll come to SF :)

[Mouses Magic]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#3

Posted: 12/5/07 at 2:00am

Told ya so!

[emo_geek]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#4

Posted: 12/5/07 at 2:38am

Wow...2009 is far away.

"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999

[AKDPerformer]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#5

Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:01am

YAY!!!!! :)

MP represent!

"We need people not to come to Broadway shows wearing shorts and flip-flops. We are working hard up here folks. Find a pair of socks."-Joanna Gleason "I hear L. Ron Hubbard is gonna blow the ladies...and all that jazz! C'mon babe! We're gonna unicorn hug, I bought some NyQuil down....at Wal-Mart?!"-Bebe Neuwirth singing ATJ to Musical Mad Libs at DQYNJ :)

[Justin D]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#6

Posted: 12/5/07 at 7:32am

lets hope they dont scale it down too much, that house set is amazing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre

[Steve2]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#7

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:33am

One thing the New York Times says is "In addition, all the New York principals, including Ashley Brown in the title role and Gavin Lee as Bert the chimney sweep, have signed on for another 12 months, something of a rarity these days. 'They love doing it,' Schumacher said."

I didn't see that mentioned anywhere else. Good for them!


New York Times

[Brave Sir Robin2]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#8

Posted: 12/5/07 at 10:15am

Why in 2009? That's too far away! Xanadu is going to La Jolla next fall and Spring Awakening starts it's tour then. Weird how Blonde and Curtains haven't announced tours. Hopefully they all make it to L.A.!

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

[Fosse76]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#9

Posted: 12/5/07 at 10:32am

At first I thought Thomas Schumacher finally realized that Chicago is one of the most important theater markets and then I remembered that Cameron Macintosh is also a producer and he probably insisted it open in Chicago.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#10

Posted: 12/5/07 at 10:33am

If BLONDE announces a tour now, it will lose all chances of recouping the Broadway production. Those producers know that whether they announce a tour now or if they wait until 2012, there will always be an audience out in Nowheresville for the show.

CURTAINS just signed on DHP through August 2008. He is *the* selling point for that show. Let THEM recoup and hold onto DHP as long as they can before they even think about a tour. They don't exactly have a "wave" that they need to ride by a certain point in time. They can put this unknown, unheard of, no-name show on the road at any time, and it will do so-so. Their best bet is to get people in that Broadway house to see that production with its well-known Tony winning recognizable TV star right now.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[NY_Broadway2]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#11

Posted: 12/5/07 at 11:20am

BLONDE is doing a tour in 2009. In Dallas, they already announced that we would be getting that then and the tour of CURTAINS as well. Just thought I would let you know.

If you hide from yourself, be someone else for someone else's sake, that would be the greatest mistake - bare

[BrodyFosse123]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#12

Posted: 12/5/07 at 11:24am

The LEGALLY BLONDE Tour also has booked dates at the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Tampa, Florida.

[ThankstoPhantom]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#13

Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:25pm

From the Times article listed above:
'We've rebuilt the house,' Mackintosh said. 'It works in a very different way. It still opens up to be more or less what you've seen (on Broadway), but how it does that is different.'

No surprise here. This tour is going to be awesome. How exciting that such a big show has recouped! (I am sure Disney was very eager to reveal this information, given the Tarzan tragedy)

Congratulations!

How to properly use its/it's: Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...

[Jilani]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#14

Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:33pm

*Spoiler*

Will it be feasible to have Mary Poppins fly out over the audience at the end in a touring production?

[Sondheim_Geek]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#15

Posted: 12/5/07 at 4:00pm

I really hope Tiffany Haas gets the MP role. I remember hearing rumors about her reading for it.

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#16

Posted: 12/5/07 at 4:05pm

Wow, such a huge show recouped in almost exactly a year! That's really great. I'm sure it will also do Boston, LA, Dallas, etc...

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[Junior]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#17

Posted: 12/5/07 at 4:12pm

Anyone know what the initial investment was for Broadway? Did I miss that somewhere? Things like that just interest me. Congrats on recouping!

[HBBrock]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#18

Posted: 12/5/07 at 4:15pm

Congrats to Mary Poppins - saw it in January of 07 and LOVED IT. It's an excellent show that I highly recommend.
Updated On: 12/5/07 at 04:15 PM

[Steve2]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#19

Posted: 12/5/07 at 5:25pm

Anyone know what the initial investment was for Broadway? Did I miss that somewhere? Things like that just interest me. Congrats on recouping!

From New York Times (Link above): "Although Disney doesn't reveal the cost of its shows, most large Broadway musicals today cost between $12 million-$15 million and 'Mary Poppins,' with its big cast, lavish sets and period costumes, is larger than most."

[mauriposa]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#20

Posted: 12/5/07 at 5:27pm

Yay, Chicago! Although, I might not still live here in 2009. Figures.

[Toddlin2]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#21

Posted: 12/5/07 at 5:28pm

The Chi engagement is seen as a long run sit-down before launching on tour. It could run at the Palace 9 months or more, meaning the rest of the country won't be seeing it until sometime in 2010.

[Fosse76]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#22

Posted: 12/5/07 at 5:35pm

"The Chi engagement is seen as a long run sit-down before launching on tour. It could run at the Palace 9 months or more, meaning the rest of the country won't be seeing it until sometime in 2010."

Now I am CONVINCED that Macintosh is the reason the tour will launch in Chicago. Schumacher, for some inexplicable reason, doesn't see Chicago as a big theatre town. He mocked the producers of Wicked for wanting a sit-down, and that was AFTER it celebrated its first anniversary!

[Junior]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#23

Posted: 12/5/07 at 5:38pm

thanks steve! Guess I just missed that...

[AKDPerformer]

re: Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009#24

Posted: 12/5/07 at 6:29pm

"One thing the New York Times says is "In addition, all the New York principals, including Ashley Brown in the title role and Gavin Lee as Bert the chimney sweep, have signed on for another 12 months, something of a rarity these days. 'They love doing it,' Schumacher said."

YES!!!! Now when I eventually get back to work there sometime next year i'll be able to re-familiarize and revel in the delicious talent that is Gavin Lee :)

"We need people not to come to Broadway shows wearing shorts and flip-flops. We are working hard up here folks. Find a pair of socks."-Joanna Gleason "I hear L. Ron Hubbard is gonna blow the ladies...and all that jazz! C'mon babe! We're gonna unicorn hug, I bought some NyQuil down....at Wal-Mart?!"-Bebe Neuwirth singing ATJ to Musical Mad Libs at DQYNJ :)