PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#1PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 4:51pmHearing from some reliable sources that the production won't open. Has anyone else heard anything about this?
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#2PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:00pm
Expect a major announcement soon. A friend involved in production has confirmed it has been "postponed indefinitely"...
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:02pmWhat's the trouble? This isn't that expensive of a show to mount.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#3PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:03pmAre tickets on sale? Maybe the advance was pitiful.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#4PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:03pm
Not sure... Producers with cold feet? Disappointed as I enjoy Doyle's work (most of it) and love a lot of this cast...
Curious to see how this unfolds. That poor Circle in the Square will stay dark...
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#5PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:03pmMaybe advanced sales weren't that great... shame... :- Whether the show was good or not, no one will know.
#6PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:06pmIf this is true, I'll be sad because I won't get to have my Magical John Doyle Double Header Day. Which you all know I was going to have.
#8PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:10pmI just might. But it has been my dream to see two Doyle shows in one day ever since Sweeney and Company missed each other by a month.
#9PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:55pmShame if it's true. I was hoping to see this. I also wish someone would put a top-notch production of Return to the Forbidden Planet in Circle in the Square. Brilliant show.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#10PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:19pmThey need to just put ROCKY HORROR back in there and keep it forever and forever.
oasisjeff
Broadway Star Joined: 11/15/07
#11PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:33pm
Just updated it as "postponed" on the main page...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-PUMP-BOYS-AND-DINETTES-Postpones-Broadway-Production-20130208
Now t/d/b/a haterobics on here.
Luv2goToShows
Broadway Star Joined: 9/13/09
#12PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:33pm
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-PUMP-BOYS-AND-DINETTES-Postpones-Broadway-Production-20130208
Interesting:
"On behalf of my fellow producers and investors, we are all so excited to bring PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES back to Broadway," producer Abby Lee said. "With the crowded landscape on Broadway this spring, we all agreed that the wise choice was to proceed with a new opening date. We are in the process of determining the updated production schedule and look forward to sharing this wonderful musical with Broadway audiences in the near future."
Updated On: 2/8/13 at 06:33 PM
#13PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:41pmThere was a rumor that DISGRACED was looking to move to Broadway. Circle in the Square would be a good venue for it. Just a thought.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#14PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:53pmand we now have another theater to be vacant this spring/summer. I doubt this would have sold considering the Doyle concept. Sweeney Todd & Company didn't recoup, and they're both well known musicals. I doubt the average person has heard of Pump Boys & Dinettes.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#15PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 7:00pm
^Sweeney Todd did recoup. In 19 weeks.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/98593-A-Killing-New-Sweeney-Todd-Revival-Recoups-on-Broadway
Updated On: 2/8/13 at 07:00 PM
#16PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 7:02pmThere were 5 actors, no musicians and no set. Of course that horrendous production recouped.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#17PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 7:11pmSad, sad. Leenya Rideout needs a splashy role. Ferocious talent.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#18PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 7:45pm
Blerrrrrgh.
Also tired of people deciding Sweeney didn't recoup just because they didn't like it. Not how it works. Thems the facts.
#19PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 8:30pmFor what it's worth I am pretty sure they were still rehearsing this week, so hopefully they do simply postpone .
#20PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 8:50pmSo was Ben Sprecher the lead producers on this one as well? Was there more alleged venomous email to non existent investors?
#21PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/8/13 at 11:12pmI have never heard of this show, is it new or a revival?
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#23PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/9/13 at 12:19am
Saw this on Broadway originally. It put Debra Monk on the map as a actress/singer (she starred) and as a writer ( she wrote some of it with the rest of the cast.)
It doesn't belong on Broadway. It belongs off-broadway.. Way off..Like Opryland? It takes place at a diner/gas station and they sing songs in the diner. Yawn. No book. Annoying hillbilly diner stuff.Couldn't wait to leave although Monk was good.
I love Debra Monk as a performer. She is always great.. but this show will disappoint in so many ways.
Doyle is the obvious choice for director because guess what....?? The actors all played their own (yawn) instruments. It was actually written that way.
Updated On: 2/9/13 at 12:19 AM
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#24PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES canceled...?
Posted: 2/9/13 at 7:57amI was fortunate to work on PUMP BOYS from the time it started OOB, even before the DINETTES were added to the show. Of course, I'm biased. I LOVE the show, but that being said, I wouldn't produce a Broadway production of the show at this time. Circle in the Square is the most appropriate Broadway house for the show, but nevertheless, I see don't see a market for it today. I'll be surprised if this group of producers ever bring to Broadway. Updated On: 2/9/13 at 07:57 AM
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