Question about when broadway shows close

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 9/15/03 at 6:44pm

When a Broadway show closes, Is there a video that comes out of the orginal B'Way cast?? Like Cabaret, will there be a video of it with Alan Cumming & Natasha Richardson??

I know theres quite a few out of past B'Way shows but I don't know if they all do it.

[CJR]

Posted: 9/15/03 at 7:09pm

They don't always do it -- I forget what the criteria is. I know the final performance of Bells Are Ringing was taped for Lincoln Center :) (and *I* was there -- that was festive! lol)

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 9/15/03 at 7:29pm

I know theres one for like all the ALW musicals that were once on Broadway. Do you guys think there will be one for Cabaret?? I really would like to see Alan Cumming as Emcee. =-/

[himself]

Posted: 9/15/03 at 8:09pm

Most shows are now taped for Lincoln Center and are available only through them. This costs the producers about $5,000.00. The cost of doing a full blown video of a show is prohibitive and is rarely done. Hence, the traffic in illegal videos. Or Hasselhoff...

[CJR]

Posted: 9/15/03 at 8:11pm

Well, it wouldn't be the original cast on the video -- it would be the closing night cast archived for LC if they even did it at all.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 9/15/03 at 8:50pm

Also what prohibits many shows from doing a commercial video is all the rights clearances. Everybody wants a piece of the profit pie and it just gets too costly to produce.

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 9/16/03 at 5:04pm

How come like all the ALW shows have videos? Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat & Cats has a video of the orginal cast. I thought that when you sometimes see commercials that they take bits and pieces out of the show they recorded and put it into a commercial?? lol I don't know thats what I thought.

[Cadriel]

Posted: 9/16/03 at 5:10pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber is a big believer in having records of his shows in some visual format. So, for that matter, is Stephen Sondheim. As big-name composers, they have the clout to ensure that their shows are recorded. Other times, it'll be something like Jekyll & Hyde, where Hasselhoff wanted the show recorded and had it done.

The market can't bear all that many theatrical DVDs, though I gather it's catching on a bit more now as ALW and Sondheim are both doing it. There should be more and more in the future.

Commercials are filmed separately from any other footage, just like how the photographs in the souvenir brochures are generally taken from rehearsals.

-Wayne

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 9/16/03 at 7:14pm

"Commercials are filmed separately from any other footage, just like how the photographs in the souvenir brochures are generally taken from rehearsals."

hmmmm good to know.

"There should be more and more in the future." Yeah I agree!