Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?- Page 6

[ljay889]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#125

Posted: 12/3/09 at 5:59pm

John and Gina are locks in their respective categories.

[bjh2114]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#126

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:01pm

Neo, their grosses might be fine, but if their advance is absolutely abysmal, the producers might figure it's better to close than to waste more money by running the show for a few more weeks where it won't meet the weekly cost.

Updated On: 12/3/09 at 06:01 PM

[MusicSnob1]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#127

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:06pm

Thanks for explaining how it logically works, bjh.

Neo - time to take you to school, kid...

When I think about you, I touch myself.

[Mattbrain]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#128

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:08pm

"This show ain't Wicked, this show ain't Lion King. "

Hell, this show lost the Tony to Lion King.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[Dagobert]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#129

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:12pm

My inside sources say that no closing notice has been posted. So that makes the people saying it has -that makes them..what is that word again? Liars? Mistaken? Dissemblers? S**t stirrers?

[mywonderwa11]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#130

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:16pm

No one said there was a closing notice being posted yet.

"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"

[MusicSnob1]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#131

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:17pm

I'm tired of your "inside sources"

My inside sources say that your inside sources are dirty smelly liars! Hmph!

When I think about you, I touch myself.

[ljay889]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#132

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:18pm

^ Agreed. Those with real inside sources don't brag about having insider sources.

[Basely Tearful]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#133

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:21pm

"Twitter is going crazy with reports about the cast being informed today about the closing"

Yep the site's down right now because everyone from Arianna Huffington to John McCain is twittering about the closing of Ragtime.

[Unknown User]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#134

Posted: 12/3/09 at 7:03pm

Sorry-I'm sick today and clearly not thinking straight.

Obviously Night Music will be one of the 4. Early to assume but Finian's, Night Music, La Cage and Ragtime sound like they would be the 4 nominees.

[whatever2]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#135

Posted: 12/3/09 at 9:20pm

hardly conclusive evidence, but Ragtime now has five nights next week posted on tdf ... a pretty clear break from its prior strategy. (which, as noted, has only included tdf twice before, on holiday-ish nights where butts generally are not in broadway theater seats.)

"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)

[ljay889]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#137

Posted: 12/4/09 at 2:19am

Wtf?

[Dagobert]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#138

Posted: 12/4/09 at 9:47am

the reason I post it as inside info is not to brag - it is so people KNOW it is reliable...the proof that my info was correct is evident.
Let's see...twitter supposedly saying a closing notice had been posted. Another chatboard was cited here claiming a closing notice had been posted. My info said it was not true...and today still no word of a closing notice...mmmm...interesting.

[binau]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#139

Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:08pm

I don't think it was about a *closing notice* in terms of a specific date the show is closing; rather the reports were the cast were told they show is closing but they weren't given dates or anything...kind of like, it will be 'closing soon' kind-of-thing.

Do you claim this is also wrong?

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[Dagobert]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#140

Posted: 12/4/09 at 6:06pm

actually on ATC the claim was the a closing in 2 weeks WAS POSTED. That claim was made in this thread in posts that have since been deleted. It was false. The cast were NOT told that they are closing. That is false.
but the cast and anyone else would have to be brain dead to not realize that without an increase in business in the near future this all will come to be true.
Meanwhile Valisia Lekae rocked it last night as Sarah in place of Wally Pipp (um,I mean Stephanie Umoh) and she goes on again tonight..You go girl!

[TheaterBoy7777]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#142

Posted: 12/5/09 at 1:28am

In the event that it IS closing...not to celebrate actors losing work or to rush it out, because I really enjoyed Ragtime. But does anyone have more of a concrete thought or source of whats replacing it before Phantom 2...1st wives,Carrie(lol), Fences,ect...I did some searching and couldn't quite find a thread devoted to it.

[ljay889]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#143

Posted: 12/5/09 at 1:31am

FENCES was/is legitimately looking at the theater.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#144

Posted: 12/5/09 at 3:55am

Is the rumor that AMERICAN IDIOT is going into the Henry Miller?

[Smaxie]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#145

Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:59am

No. American Idiot is waiting for a Jujamcyn house.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[wdwfreak]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#146

Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:16pm

The only Jujacyn Theatre I could only see American Idio playing in is the Eugene O'Neill. The only other theater that might open up is the St. James, but I feel that theater would be too big for the show.

[blaxx]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#147

Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:18pm

The O'Neill it will be.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[Smaxie]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#148

Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:30pm

That's what I thought too. But I hear that they want the St. James.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[HeyJayNYC]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#149

Posted: 12/5/09 at 8:20pm

RAGTIME IS NOT CLOSING!!!!

GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT!

CAST AND CREW KNOW BETTER THAN SOME TWIT ON TWITTER!!!

[ljay889]

re: Michael Reidel: RAGTIME to Close January 3rd?#150

Posted: 12/5/09 at 8:23pm

OK !!!!!!