Most Unexpected Closing Announcement — Page 2

My Top 5 (in no particular order):
- The Wedding Singer
- Beauty and the Beast
- Hairspray
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- XANADU

Absolutely agree about Ragtime. That Ragtime is long gone and the same season's Lion King is still selling out is sad (not that i didn't enjoy Lion King, but Ragtime was, i think, the real king of that season, in spite of the Tony award given to LK)

I agree with "The Wedding Singer"- it took me a long time to finally give in and go see it and wound up LOVING it, just to see it close shortly after. They always manage to close the really fun shows! "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" closed because of the cast change- the numbers literally came grinding to a halt after Norbert left. I can't remember the two leads that came in, but they were horribly miscasted and brought the show to a quick close.

I know I'm going to get attacked for this, but I was shocked that "High Fidelity" closed as quickly as it did. It wasn't a "perfect" musical, but it did what a musical was supposed to do. I'll never forget the closing night performance (I had to get tickets in Rear Mezz because my tickets for a week later in the first row were no longer for a show date,) I never heard an audience laugh so hard during one point in the show. I was amazed that they only had seven days to "find their audience" and then got criticized for it. Good or bad, it wasn't given a fair shot. Knowing it was closing, I went in expecting a terrible show, and was so sad when I came to love it. I would've recommended it to a bunch of people and had no chance to do so. So strange how theatre works sometimes. . .

I thought the deal was that the cast had to know 2 weeks in advance, so when something closes like on Opening Night or with the "Normal Heart" and it closes just as the announcement goes up, are the producers violating an agreement? Can the cast sue or do they get compensated?

I knew it would close one day but when they announced RENT I thought I was gonna die. Then i saw the closing show on screen and it was very theraputic. Having done the show also helped.

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I so agree about RENT, the grosses weren't any worse then they were other winters, why was that one any different? Well on Jan 15, the closing notice went up, and I cried so hard, It was extremely difficult for me....the 9 months between the closing and the announcement.....

Title Of Show was doing VERY bad in the box office since it opened.

I still can't believe that Rent closed. I do agree that that winter it wasn't doing any worse then it was in years past. But, I do think that it was that it had been the same year after year and the box office couldn't take it much longer. I remember walking out of the 41st street subway exit and feeling like I had to prep myself. When I saw the theatre I was in a state of shock.

I am still convinced that if Little Mermaid wasn't coming to Broadway and if it didn't need a theatre that Beauty would still be playing today. It closed to make room for Little Mermaid and not because of the fact that it was doing bad at the box office.

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Hairspray - big shock
Glory Days - I knew it wouldn't last long, but never thought it would close opening night.
Beauty and The Beast

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The Blonde in the Thunderbird.

The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

A Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass

I agree with Hairspray. Last time I saw it, it was a little tired - but its one that just seemed like it would always be around.

I'm going to add The 39 Steps to this, just because a new show was announced for its theater before they even posted a closing notice. Um, what?

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Last week it was Hairspray on Broadway,
today and for the rest of the month probably the closing of Avenue Q in London!

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