NY POST On "Fela!" Transfer

[Testing1232]

NY POST On "Fela!" Transfer#1

Posted: 5/22/09 at 8:27am

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/theater/

Sorry if already posted ! VERY exciting !!!

Its going to take an amazing performance to beat Sahr for the Tony- Still really surprised he didnt win the Drama Desk-

Cant wait for this !!

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#2

Posted: 5/22/09 at 8:59am

I forget, did crowds really "flock" to the show ar 37 Arts?

[adamgreer]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#2

Posted: 5/22/09 at 9:25am

I know it extended at least once, but I remember it being fairly easy to get tickets to.
Updated On: 5/22/09 at 09:25 AM

[Yankeefan007]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#3

Posted: 5/22/09 at 9:46am

So was IN THE HEIGHTS.

[everythingtaboo]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#4

Posted: 5/22/09 at 9:59am

How is it an $11 million dollar production?

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

[Attendthetale331]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#5

Posted: 5/22/09 at 10:00am

Fela actually sold out the entire run plus the extension after it opened.

"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."

[RippedMan]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#6

Posted: 5/22/09 at 12:51pm

$11? What makes the production so big? He said it had a pretty hefty weekly running cost. How so? Was there a big set or something?

[barcelona20]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#7

Posted: 5/22/09 at 12:56pm

No big set, just some projections. $11 million seems a little high, but it's probably due to the large size of the cast, and the typical costs of running a broadway show these days.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#8

Posted: 5/22/09 at 12:57pm

yesyesyes!

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[jrb_actor]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#9

Posted: 5/22/09 at 1:34pm

Can not wait to see!

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[Testing1232]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#10

Posted: 5/22/09 at 4:27pm

Tickets were extemely hard to come by for the last few weeks of the run. I just hope that they plug a lot of money into the marketing of the show. As amazing as it is, its going to be tough sell on Broadway.

I just hope they keep the "audience participation" part in !! Seeing that (dont want to "Spoil") in a larger house would be incredible !

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#11

Posted: 5/22/09 at 11:30pm

Huh. Wonder why it didn't transfer this season.

Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#12

Posted: 5/22/09 at 11:31pm

The Post article blames the recession.

[pattilupuppy]

re: NY POST On 'Fela!' Transfer#13

Posted: 5/22/09 at 11:55pm

the projections are very costly due to the complexity of them