Ragtime closes in London after 2/3 months

[JakeB]

Ragtime closes in London after 2/3 months#0

Posted: 6/1/03 at 9:11am

It just didn't get the sales, I got comps and I think most the audience did too.. great show though.

[Alvin and My Sheepdog Rex]

re: Ragtime closes in London after 2/3 months#1

Posted: 6/1/03 at 9:51am

A well thought of production in the U.S. of A. with a run on Broadway of around 860 performances. However, I'm not surprised it didn't export well and have staying power across the Pond. They could always pack up the troop and head for Branson.

My perfect day would begin at on the beach in Hana, Maui and end at a Broadway Musical.

[MusicMan]

re: re: Ragtime closes in London after 2/3 months#2

Posted: 6/1/03 at 11:16am

No mystery that it closed in the UK or that it wasn't a barn-burner on Broadway either. The novelistic device of telling the story in the third person is alienating and emotionally uninvolving for audiences and the score is undistinguished, with not one memorable, stand-out tune (the only one that had potential, Wheels of a Dream, is essentially a car commercial for the Ford Company, in whose theater the show was originally produced). Oh, what Bernstein would have done with such an opportunity! Updated On: 6/1/03 at 11:16 AM

[JakeB]

re: re: re: Ragtime closes in London after 2/3 months#3

Posted: 6/1/03 at 11:25am

It was well received by those who saw it - and got good reviews as well. However, this is really only one for musical fans I think.

[Alvin and My Sheepdog Rex]

re: Nest Stop, France!#4

Posted: 6/1/03 at 11:35am

Perhaps they should load the cast on the train and take the chunnel to France and open Ragtime in Paris. I'm sure the French would just love this salute to Americana!

My perfect day would begin at on the beach in Hana, Maui and end at a Broadway Musical.

[Mr Roxy]

re: re: Nest Stop, France!#5

Posted: 6/1/03 at 12:41pm

Another reason they would love is that it has an uplifting sub plot about how jews helped build america. A double barreled reason for the french to love it

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[MusicMan]

re: re: re: Nest Stop, France!#6

Posted: 6/1/03 at 1:13pm

Well, perhaps McNally can do a revision and reveal Henry Ford for the notorious anti-Semite that he was (which somehow got glossed over in the show--maybe the fact that it was playing at the Ford Performing Arts Center had something to do with it? HMMM?