Phantom to Close On Broadway- Page 2

[BigFatBlonde]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#25

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:51pm

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted On: 7/16/08 at 09:20:13 PM

Again, it is a JOKE!!! No need to get your panties in a twist!!


wicked_beast4,

We ALL understood what you meant the first time. No point in...

What great ones do the less will prattle of

[millie_dillmount]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#26

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:53pm

OMG - bryan/theatre2 made a post NOT RELATED TO CAST RECORDINGS OF FLOPS!

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[wicked_beast4]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#27

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:53pm

Aww, but BFB, beating it is half the fun!!!!!!!! Haha, I am very hypocritical.

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

[Patash]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#28

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:53pm

Phew. Some of you people must be a real mess on April Fool's Day. Don't you have any sense of humor at all? Sure the title was meant to get a rise out of people. It sure as hell worked, didn't it? Why get so emotionally distraught over it because you were "caught" by it?

[BigFatBlonde]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#29

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:56pm

I'm sending wicked_beast4 a big ol' basket of kisses.

What great ones do the less will prattle of

Updated On: 7/16/08 at 09:56 PM

[splendoris]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#30

Posted: 7/16/08 at 10:01pm

oh man, I just got excited

[CyCoSpAz2]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#31

Posted: 7/16/08 at 10:06pm

These four days can be a warm up!

[Chance]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#32

Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:28pm

As i've said before- stupid little kids who know nothing about the theatre! Ban all under 18s cos they know nothing!

Someone change Betsy Wetsy's diaper

[wicked_beast4]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#33

Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:36pm

You mean Pappy's Crappie Nappie.

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

[My Oh My]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#34

Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:54pm

Will Cammack call it a "revival" when it reopens? *eye roll*

Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.

[winston89]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#35

Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:16am

My Oh My, if your making a comment about how you don't consider Les Miserables to have had a revival your wrong. There is no rule that says that a revival has to be a re imangied version of the show in any way. Sure some of them are. Technically all a a show has to have in order to be considered a revival is a period of 3 or more years between the revival production and the original. Les Miserables had 3 years and only 3 years so by technical standings it was a revival.

I remember reading in the West End forum when this was going on in London that there were tourists who had thought that the show was closing forever in London. As if their eyes stopped reading the article after the words "Phantom Closing" and didn't see the part were it was for 4 days to re do the sound system and thus tickets sold like hotcakes. I wonder if the same thing would happen on Broadway. That tourists would hear that it is closing think it is forever and tickets would go like mad.

"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll

[Natch]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#36

Posted: 7/17/08 at 2:58am

haha... when I saw this thread I went "it's about time..." ;P
not that there's anything wrong with Phantom (well, I mean, I'm not a fan... but I don't want to start anything, haha) ... there's just something wrong with it running for... what is it now, 20 years? o_o

...it'll get here, oh, it'll get here...
[believe]

[millie_dillmount]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#37

Posted: 7/17/08 at 10:34am

Les Mis wasn't a revival? Since when? Isn't a revival by definition something that you bring back? I agree with winston. If it was to be considered a special engagement, wouldn't the run have been MUCH shorter?

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Fosse76]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#38

Posted: 7/17/08 at 10:43am

To actually answer the OP's question. RENT closed for a week a few years ago to redo the sound system at the Nederlander. So this isn't precedent-setting.

[theatrenut2]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#38

Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:15pm

I loved the title for the thread. It does catch your attention.

[winston89]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#39

Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:20pm

Millie,

As far as My oh my is concerned I think that he/she feels like Les Miserables didn't have a revival becuase it was the same production that played on Broadway only three years prior.

But, I do remember Rent closing to make room for a new sound system.

"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll

[millie_dillmount]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#40

Posted: 7/17/08 at 2:34pm

"As far as My oh my is concerned I think that he/she feels like Les Miserables didn't have a revival becuase it was the same production that played on Broadway only three years prior."

Furthermore, it closed, then opened a few years later. Chorus Line did the same thing, except the time gap between their closing and revial opening was much longer. And it wasn't completely new and reworked.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

Updated On: 7/17/08 at 02:34 PM

[My Oh My]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#41

Posted: 7/18/08 at 1:45am

Winston, you're absolutely wrong. Of course Les Mis had an actual revival. To assume I meant I don't believe it did based on sets, is quite silly.

I recall when me and other Les Mis fans first heard of it, we were under the impression that it was only an extended tour stop of the 3rd national tour. And when they officially starting calling it a revival, I felt it was a marketing ploy. Along with the lure of revamped orchestrations, I thought it was just another one of Cammacks little tricks to stir curiosity and get more people to buy tix.

Of course today I acknowledge it as a revival by definition, but at the time, it was almost too incredible to believe they'd bring the show back so quickly and, like I mentioned before, I was almost certain it was an extended tour stop...hence the joke about Phantom being billed as a revival after the 4 day closure by the business savvy Mackintosh.

Anyway, ahhh, I'm late. Gotta go catch a plane!

Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.

[levitatingcow11]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#42

Posted: 7/19/08 at 1:01am

Ooph, what an emotional roller coaster ride on my young heart. YAY! no.

YOU GOT ME! I've always wanted to be punked.

[winston89]

re: Phantom to Close On Broadway#43

Posted: 7/19/08 at 1:14am

My Oh My,

The thing is is that the revival was never announced as an exteded tour stop. The only articles that had anything to do with the tour and the revival were ones that had said that they were closing the tour to bring all the sets to NY. Not that the production at the Broadhurst was part of the tour.

"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll