Riedel on Grey Gardens' Closing — Page 4

Whatever BwayInsider's motives are, he/she has posred words as nasty as Reidel's.
All the "inside" info on Ms. Ebersole's attendance and such seem to indicate someone following awfully close to the production and the statement "a history of being difficult and it seems has a self-dextructive streak" need some back-up as much as anything in Reidel's column.

justme2, in my opinion Sweet Smell of Success got everything wrong that Grey Gardens got right. The book was just silly, the songs didn't work for the characters or propel the story, and the chorus kept speech-singing nonsensical statements that were supposed to sound "hip".

It was fun watching Brian D'Arcy James and John Lithgow, but it was still a couple of hours of my life that I wish I could have back.

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Updated On: 7/19/07 at 09:10 AM

Bway Insider I don't dispute your math assumptions. My point was I felt the producers were mismanaging the finances. Covering almost every bus in the city costs more than $65K per week etc. It is about getting the best return on the money spent and frankly it looks like they just threw money at the problem without solving the problem.

In comparison, wasn't one of Spring Awakening's producers quoted a few weeks ago saying they had recouped 25% or more? It has grossed a little more than Grey Gardens (yes in a shorter amount of time). But I cannot imagine it was much more expensive to produce or to run on a weekly basis.

Unfortunately, I guess Grey Gardens is closing because there is no more money to fund it.

Just an FYI, I don't believe Rosie has anything to do with Staunch entertainment. I believe she is an investor through another source.
I'm surprised the new poster, broadway insider didn't clear that up. But then again, I guess I'm not surprised that something didn't get "cleared up" by him.

I definitely am not of a camp who thinks Christine Ebersole craps sunshine, but I don't understand the "self destructive" and history of being difficult part.
A quote necessary for all net claims of difficult behavior- screen shots or it didn't happen. :)

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It didn't happen. And the only thing that I would think of as self distructive behavior, is agreeing to the producers plea to not take her scheduled vacation.

Exactly.