#26
Posted: 6/24/15 at 7:04pm
agree, not seeing Amazing Grace
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#27
Posted: 6/24/15 at 7:52pm
Sorry this answers the wrong question but...
Planning my Sept NYC trip to see Amazing Grace! Loved it in Chicago!! But I see most are nays so this may be gone by Jan 2016
I am also planning to see On your Feet in 2016 (I got tix this weekend in Chicago!)
Updated On: 6/24/15 at 07:52 PM
#28
Posted: 6/24/15 at 10:56pm
I have already seen Amazing Grace, and it was actually really good.
But still I refuse to see Hamilton, and have no interest in seeing it, also I cannot understand why Disney is going waste the money to bring Frozen to broadway when the hype behind the movie has died down to the point where now it is a joke. Let's not forget how much money Disney lost on the Little Mermaid?
#29
Posted: 6/25/15 at 12:09am
>I cannot understand why Disney is going waste the money to bring Frozen to broadway when the hype behind the movie has died down to the point where now it is a joke.<
I think Frozen's $1.2 billion worldwide gross might be argument enough toward potential audience interest in a stage version.
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#30
Posted: 6/25/15 at 12:35am
Amazing Grace
On Your Feet
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#31
Posted: 6/25/15 at 1:16am
As always I plan on seeing everything. I can learn as much from a bad production or one that doesn't quite work as I can from one that's brilliant. And I love being surpised by something I may not have much faith in but that ends up coming through.
#32
Posted: 6/25/15 at 1:35am
I'm going to try to see Amazing Grace just for its choreography. Otherwise I have no interest in seeing it.
#33
Posted: 6/25/15 at 1:38am
Hamilton, Penn and Teller, Titanic (if it happens).
#34
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:29am
I will always look forward to a show with choreography by Chris Gattelli and Gabe Barre is a very thoughtful director. Throw in the wonderful Tom Hewitt, Chuck Cooper, Erin Mackey and Josh Young. Let's not hang the black crepe on Amazing Grace just yet.
#35
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:06am
"Will anyone be seeing AMAZING GRACE? I'm honestly surprised they haven't started papering yet."
Aw, poor Amazing Grace. I don't know why (I mean I don't know which ticket I bought that got my name on some list) but I got a flyer in the mail. I met someone at another show who had seen the show in Chicago and loved it. I'm planning to see it as soon as they announce a rush policy.
#36
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:29am
Yeah the audiences apparently went wild for the show in Chicago. Lets actually give this show a chance before you protest it.
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#37
Posted: 6/25/15 at 5:31am
Does anyone who has seen Amazing Grace in Chicago remember the running time? I am trying to figure out if i have time to see it during a 7-hour layover at EWR for international work travel on a wednesday.
#38
Posted: 6/25/15 at 1:36pm
Let's not forget how much money Disney lost on the Little Mermaid?
The negative reviews had everything to do with its design, not that it was a bad idea to bring it to the stage or that there was no interest (though the film was 20 years earlier, it is easily one of Disney's most popular animated features). Christmas was just a few weeks after previews started and by the holiday, it was selling like gangbusters for about 9 months until the recession hit. Sales would spike during holidays and summer months, but too low in the interim months to cover the cost of the poorly conceived staging. Add the cost of Aiden Bailey's injury and the show was not going to be able to sustain, even with relatively high grosses in peak months.
I personally don't consider it to be a common assumption that Frozen would encounter the exact same scenario.
Yeah the audiences apparently went wild for the show in Chicago.
Living in Chicago, that never seemed apparent. There was one commercial where they interviewed a handful of audience members who said they loved it in front of a camera that saturated CBS morning television daily in particular, but there was little buzz about the show in the city. It really struggled to sell tickets outside the subscription dates and the show came and went very quietly. Most people I know don't recall it playing in Chicago at all. Even Sense and Sensibility at the Shakespeare Theatre was received more warmly than Amazing Grace.
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#39
Posted: 6/25/15 at 1:53pm
Frozen is going to be a hit mainly because of the movie's success. Even if the show sucks people are still gonna go see it, even if ir doesn't last for two years. It'll be like Aladdin, which wasn't that great of a show imo, but is still playing to 100+% capacities weekly.
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#40
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:04pm
I had no intention of seeing Amazing Grace, but now that I know Chuck Cooper is in it, I'll give it a try.
#41
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:33pm
Mister Matt, On Your Feet was also barely talked about and struggled to sell tickets, so apparently Chicago audiences just suck ass.
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#42
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:44pm
Philly
Here is a prediction: On Your Feet will succeed here while Amazing will not. We will see how it plays out in the end.
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#43
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:23pm
Mister Matt, On Your Feet was also barely talked about and struggled to sell tickets, so apparently Chicago audiences just suck ass.
An assumption based on those two shows? Nah. It's pretty much as expected. Amazing Grace didn't have enough advance promotion to overcome what seemed to be a Christian-themed musical and the reviews didn't really rave enough to make it a must-see event. As for On Your Feet, there was never going to be enough articles to make the Gloria Estefan story seem interesting enough to those who weren't Gloria Estefan enthusiasts. And there was nothing highlighting the musical performances or choreography in the meanstream leading up to previews to generate any aesthetic interest. It was all just "Trust us, it's going to be great!" And it's not like the show has a great title, either. Chicago audiences typically are quite accepting and Chicago is very well-known for embracing theatre, even really crappy stuff that Goodman or Steppenwolf may generate.
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#44
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:26pm
well we will find out how these shows fair in NYC
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#45
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:27pm
Is "On Your Feet" one of those Fuerza shows where there are no seats?
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#46
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:29pm
We are in agreement on that Philly
We most indeed will find out. May the better show win.
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#47
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:32pm
So the audiences suck because two shows you personally are interested in weren't huge, glowing successes?
I wish more logic worked that way.
There were some ads for On Your Feet, but not a ton. The reviews weren't terrible for the show, so that isn't why people aren't coming in droves. It's not being promoted. I live about 5 hours from Chicago and we used to get a ton of marketing about theater in Chicago over the summer. Over the past 7 or 8 years, it's virtually stopped.
As Mister Matt said, Amazing Grace did next to nothing to promote itself or announce that it wasn't a niche Christian story. If they don't do that in New York, it will be a similar outcome.
#48
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:33pm
Well they probably will do that in New York.
Mr. Roxy, why can't they both be hits? Not to mention Allegiance lurking around
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#49
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:40pm
How many hits were they from this years crop of new musicals? Most shows do not succeed. Honeymoon, despite a rave from Brantley flopped. Poor marketing did not help it either.The Last Ship tanked as well.
I wish any show well but odds are only one succeeds. I say it is On Your Feet. You say Amazing. Time will tell
There is no way that of the 3 you mentioned they all succeed. Some will & some won't. Sadly that is the economics & reality of Broadway. I used to get bummed out when a show I liked flop. No more. It is not worth the time & effort.
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#50
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:45pm
What kind of time or effort do you put in about a show you like failing? I fail to see how it has anything to do with any audience member.
There seem to be at least three major hits: Fun Home, Something Rotten & An American in Paris. I'm likely forgetting something.
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