Miracle Worker to close?
Miracle Worker to close?
sundayclothes2
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/09
#1Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 4:03pmhttp://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016166.html?categoryid=15&cs=1
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 4:26pm
Sales have been disappointing. Word is that a closing notice went up before opening night.....thereby hoping for a bump in sales with the reviews. With the reviews lukewarm at best, it is unlikely that any spike in sales has happened.
But nothing official has been released...as with anything: they'll be news when they choose to release the news.
I'm rooting for it to manage as I have tickets for next month.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#2Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 4:54pmLooks like I better hurry up and see this one!
"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"
theevilgumby
Understudy Joined: 9/27/05
#3Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 4:57pmdamn I was hoping to see this when I came to NYC. argh
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#4Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 5:23pmGreat reviews could not save Brighton Beach.
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whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#5Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 5:23pmit's ashame that the cast & crew's hard work has been cut short, but reviving this play was extremely ill-considered, imho.
"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)
#6Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 5:36pmIt hasn't announced a closing yet. For all we know, ticket sales could boost this week.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#7Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 5:39pm
>Word is that a closing notice went up before opening night.<
That was never true.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#8Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 5:51pm
I never claimed to know if it did happen or not....just stating what the 'buzz' was.
Remember: I'm rooting for this one.
Whatever: why would this revival be any more ill advised than another? Personally, I was thrilled to hear a production was being mounted. Hindsight is twenty-twenty. (Of course, good direction is a plus as well.)
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#9Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 5:55pmI am also curious why the revival would be considered ill-advised.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#10Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 6:10pm
A revival of this show done "in-the-round", and without a "star" as Annie is ill-advised.
"I invented Theatre-in-the-Square - NOBODY had a good seat!" - Max Bialistock
Updated On: 3/7/10 at 06:10 PM
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#11Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 6:15pm
Jon - I agree about the 'in the round' - never really understood that decision. And as for the 'star' part, while I agree (in today's market,) I think it's sad.
I'm disappointed by this outcome, as I had hoped for the best for Kate Whorisky (the director.) She's done a bit of great work here on the wrong coast (such as the premiere staging of INTIMATE APPARREL and a deleriously imagined ANTIGONE, both at South Coast Repertory.) This just obviously isn't the right vehicle or production.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#12Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 6:25pmDrama on Broadway, new or old, without a star is doomed to failure. When the cost of seeing a straight play is almost the same as a musical, people will opt for musicals especially out of towners.
Poster Emeritus
#13Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 6:25pmThe faster The Scottsboro Boys gets a theatre to ignite this dull new musical season, the better. Callous, but true.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#14Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 6:56pm
I highly doubt that The Scottsboro Boys would fit in the Circle in The Square.
Furthermore, Roxy you're forgetting one thing. The main thing that killed Brighton Beach was that they gave The NY Times exclusive advertising. Yet, The Times themseves gave the show a negative review. Not good for advertising that's for sure.
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#15Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 7:10pm
Staging the show in the round, with this director, was a disaster. She may have done great work in the past, but she clearly had no clue how to stage a show in a venue like this.
Drama on Broadway, new or old, without a star is doomed to failure.
Who were the stars in the original cast of August: Osage County?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#16Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 7:14pm
^ I was just about to type that.....Or the 39 Steps for that matter. (although not to compare those two.)
I'm not sure if MW COULDN'T work in the round....but is sounds as though THIS director couldn't make it work that way.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#17Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 7:19pmCan the Scottsboro Boys easily be done in the round? I can't wait to see it, but it's sold out! (Please forgive my ignorance if it already is, I haven't been the the Vinyard.)
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#18Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 8:01pm
"She may have done great work in the past, but she clearly had no clue how to stage a show in a venue like this."
No one bats 1000.
And I still don't see how this COULD work in the round - and that's having acted in and directed this piece in the past.
whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#19Miracle Worker to close?
Posted: 3/7/10 at 8:34pm
why ill-advised? the appeal (broadly defined) of this configuration (book, cast, production) is not sufficiently broad to drive the traffic a broadway run requires.
don't get me wrong; i wish the reality of broadway's math were different. but i think the producers were deluding themselves by believing this production was going to commercially succeed in this environment.
and, honestly? i think this was pretty obvious from jump to anyone who wasn't unduly influenced by a love of the material, or one of the principals.
"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)
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