Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Motown to close January 18th, 2015
LightsOut90
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/14
#1Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:21pm
Just announced via their twitter account, when was the last time a musical announced their closing so far out?
Apparently though it will then reopen on Broadway July 2016???
Motown The Musical ?@MotownMusical 43s
@DavidStruckman A little bit of good news! We'll be back on Broadway in July 2016!
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Updated On: 8/21/14 at 11:21 PM
#2Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:22pm
Wow.
Updated On: 8/21/14 at 11:22 PM
#2Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:23pm
Wow, didn't see this coming. Glad something new can come into the Lunt Fontanne, but I thought this was grossing quite well. I thought it would be the next Mamma Mia.
Updated On: 8/21/14 at 11:23 PM
#3Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:24pmMaybe Finding Neverland is coming to the Lunt Fontanne?
matineeidol2591
Stand-by Joined: 6/10/09
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#5Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:25pm
It is slated to return to Broadway in July 2016 at a Nederlander theatre TBA.
NY Times
LightsOut90
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/14
MusicAndPassion
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/05
#7Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:26pmIt's 2014. It will close in a few months and open in 23 months from now? Sorry, but I doubt this re-opening will occur. Congrats to all the performers and artists who have worked hard on this show, thought!
AKarp2013
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/11
#8Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:28pm
This is very, very strange.
In response to the question: "When was the last time a musical announced their closing so far out?" If I recall correctly, didn't the revival of "42nd Street" announce its closing 10 months before the closing?
Updated On: 8/21/14 at 11:28 PM
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#9Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:29pm
Maybe the plan is start the tour, let it go for the year, then put the tour on Broadway during July like Hair, Bring it On, and Fella did?
I agree though, this seems out of nowhere and very odd.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#10Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:30pmRead... the article.
RW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
LightsOut90
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/14
#12Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:31pm
This seems very strange and im not buying this story.
NYT Article
#13Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:32pmFinding Neverland must be going into the Lunt Fontanne because all the other Nederlander theatre's have tennants for the spring except the Marquis, but with On Your Feet coming in Fall 2015, it would have to be a limited run and I think Weinstein wants an open run.
#14Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:35pmit would make sense if they'd reopen in Fall 2015. But a nearly two year hiatus is dumbfounding. Sure send the current Broadway set to London, but will Broadway audiences really remember this show in July 2016???
#15Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:37pmalso, IF FINDING NEVERLAND does want this theater, maybe there's a little push by the Nederlander organization to get MOTOWN out of there. Regardless, this is a little bizarre considering MOTOWN is still grossing around $1 million a week.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#16Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:40pmWhy do Broadway audiences need to remember it at all? This is a jukebox show for people who want to remember the great hits of Motown. There will plenty of those folks visiting in the summer of 2016.
LightsOut90
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/14
#17Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/21/14 at 11:41pmthe only conceivable reason is that the advance takes a massive nose-dive after the holidays also at 850k a week run cost not a lot of profit potential.
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#18Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/22/14 at 12:00amThis is good. It will recoup its 18 million dollar investment (wowzah!), so people interested in investing don't have to be disheartened and nobody has to go broke, but we can be relieved of this awful mess of a show.
Tag
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#19Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/22/14 at 12:02am
This has Weinstein written all over it. We'll hear a Finding Neverland/Lunt announcement any day now.
Sidenote: Why the hell did Mowtown cost $18 million!?!?
loliveve
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/12
#20Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/22/14 at 12:10am^ I wonder if the cost had to do with song rights, since Berry Goldy sold Motown and would have had to obtain the rights back, right?
#21Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/22/14 at 12:10amWowza
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#22Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/22/14 at 12:15amThey should have spent some of the 18 mil on a better writer for the book. It SUCKED!!!!
#23Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/22/14 at 12:17amWill it be eligable for Best Revival?
kade.ivy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/13
#24Motown to close January 18th, 2015
Posted: 8/22/14 at 12:19am
This is quite strange. I bet the plan is exactly what nastykhakis suggests. That will give the tour two years on the road. They'll bring that production to Broadway and have a new run if it's successful.
I am glad that the Lunt-Fontanne is now the presumable house for Neverland!
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