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#1

Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 10:19am

And people said I was a "moron" or where is the link to my "facts"and that they talked to people and it had a "great advance"?.

Mr. Riedel says it for me. 4 million for an advance on a 15 million dollar show with 650,000 op costs.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05062009/entertainment/theater/for_tony__dollys_a_bust_167864.htm?page=0


I only speak the truth. The show is in huge trouble. Let's see if it makes it to labor day.
#2

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 10:31am

If Dolly were to host, she should get a special Tony for classiness. I do hope she gets to chat with Elton John who could tell her about when the Tony committee "Snubbed" Aida. It would be nice if Dolly tried her hand at Broadway again some day.
#3

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 10:38am

Joe, according to her bio that I saw on the Biography Channel last year she's working on a musical about her life.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#7

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 10:48am

It is posts like these that make me long for the pre-internet days when a show with troubles could have private dignity. This vivisection of new shows and updates from every single preview on gets to be a bit much. Especially when someone clearly has issues with a show.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#9

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 10:50am

I go to dollywood every weekend in the summers, I would be more than happy if it played there :)
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#11

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 10:56am

I remember the talk of the musical about her life...it said something about Mountain Girl in the working title.

Unlike this article, I DO think that Dolly has a much better shot than they say of winning Best Score. I think that possibly the lack of nominations, the fact she in Dolly Parton, and the fact that Elton John has won for "Aida" might be enough for her to pull through.

As for her hosting without the show being nominated for Best Musical, I don't think it will happen and I think it would just be weird if it did.
#12

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 10:57am

"Especially when someone clearly has issues with a show"

Well stated, Bettyboy. I, often, stay out of these frays but I just fail to understand personal vendettas against shows. It's fine to like or not like a show but to take so much time and energy to put it down seems, well, wasteful to me. It's almost as if the show came to your house and ate all your ice cream or whatever. It's silly. You didn't like it and that's fine. But move past it rather than taking every opportunity to start a childish fight.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#13

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:01am

not too bad. I still think it will close right after labor day.

and I was right about Blonde, RoA and 9-5 and countless others. So if I am wrong about Hair I will own up to it. But right now, I am almost 100%.
So yeah, I am feeling pretty good.
#16

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:12am

Rock of Ages is doing nowhere near the biz you project it doing. It's nut is around 370k. It's barely making money and hardly the success you herald it to be. It's another XANADU...fun, but not exactly a success story.
#17

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:24am

its nut is actually lower than that.
And for a show to be opening in MARCH in one of the biggest economic downturns in the history of America, and not even hitting the summer yet, its doing GREAT business. Its making op costs every week and actually making a profit. Which is more than I can say for Guys and Dolls, 9-5 Shrek N2n..shall I keep going?
And now with tony nom's and tons of TV appearances to come because of those noms, the avg tix price will escalate during the summer which will drive grosses up.
So its a little different than Xanadu. Also because ROA's fan base is about half the country where xanadu's was about..Chelsea and the Village?
If ROA is the xanadu for striaght people, the show is going to run for a long long time.
#18

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:25am

Well maybe things have changed since I saw the offering papers.

I say it'll be head by next summer not recouping.

ps. Several of the shows you mentioned HAVE been making their nut plus some...like GUYS AND DOLLS and believe it or not 9 TO 5.

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 11:25 AM

#19

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:29am

its nut is actually lower than that.
And for a show to be opening in MARCH in one of the biggest economic downturns in the history of America, and not even hitting the summer yet, its doing GREAT business. Its making op costs every week and actually making a profit.

Sources?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

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#24

re: Remember When I said that 9-5 had a poor advance?

Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:39am

Is the cost of the alcohol and the additional staff needed to serve it considered part of the "nut"? Other theatres have bars a but RoA is the only one that uses the drinking and the "be served in your seat" thing as part of their marketing.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

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