Official: Godspell closing June 24
Official: Godspell closing June 24
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 8:30pmJust got the Godspell newsletter... Confirms closing date of June 24
#2Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 8:54pm
I was trying to figure out why I didn't get the email and then I remembered that I'd unsubscribed because I didn't like the show and Hunter left.
I'm sad for the actors, but they are all talented and should hopefully move on to great things!
It'll be interesting to see who takes the space next...
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:10pm
Shocked. (Persoanlly, I didn't love it, didn't hate it.)
You have to admit: Ken certainly gave this show every chance to succeed and hung in there longer than most producers would have.
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.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:17pmVery upset about this. It's a joyous celebration of the Gospel Message.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:44pmIf they had opened with Corbin Bleu it might have worked out. That blonde twink turned a lot of people off.
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#5Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:46pm
He turned me on....
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 6/12/12 at 09:46 PM
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:48pmThis is proof there is no god.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#7Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:50pm
God is dead and Godspell killed Her!
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Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#8Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:34pmAh, that's too bad. This is making me regret not being able to see it when I was NYC for my birthday.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#9Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:35pmYou're responsible, you're the one to blame!
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/13/12 at 9:30amNamo, you've been complaining about this show and putting it down since it opened. Have you even bothered to see it?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#11Official: Godspell closing June 24
Posted: 6/13/12 at 9:36am
I've had to put up with Godspell for so long, in many different (but all basically the same) versions, and I've always found it to be a diabetic piece of mindless goop.
But that number on the Tonys this week looked like a production by an amateur dramatic society from an unusually unsophisticated agricultural university.
And then they shot confetti at the audience, which proves that no one connected to the show thinks the material is any good, because that's what you do when you're desperate. Shoot confetti.
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