Rob Madge's MY SON'S A QUEER... at the Lyceum February 2024 — Page 3

PurpleMonkey said: "Does anyone know how to avoid the smiley anomaly in my response? I know it happens on here from time to time with closing parentheses."

This maddening technical glitch has been around for as long as I can remember and all requests to have it fixed have fallen on deaf ears.

The only workaround I've found is to insert a space between the parenthesis and the immediately-adjacent character.

Someone on theatreboard says this has allegedly been axed before the start of its run

Yeah this was a New World Stages show for sure and the advance is almost non-existant

Most of this spring’s new musicals are in the same boat, but they can’t quite call it quits yet with obscene budgets on the line.

Reddit so grain of salt - https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/1alja46/can_anyone_confirm_my_sons_a_queer_is_not_coming/



midnight_nyc

Yes I can confirm from both Production and House Management sources that the load in will not happen as originally planned. There seems to be talk of pushing the show to the fall but that seems unlikely



criimebrulee

Yup, cancelled and postponed till fall. I was scheduled to work on it.



Heavilybrokn

My husband saw on TikTok this morning (I didn’t see it myself) that the show was meant to load in today and they were stopped and that the show is canceled. I’ve been looking everywhere and haven’t seen anything official, but while in midtown my husband did go to the box office and no one was there when it was meant to be open until 8 PM.

I hope nothing happened to cancel its run!! We won lottery and have been really excited about it!!

I hope there was just a hiccup with doing the load in today and that it will go on without an issue! Maybe something happened at the theatre itself to prevent people from being there today or something that would explain it.


Has anyone been by the Lyceum to confirm ?

Updated On: 2/7/24 at 09:09 PM

Tix are still on sale at telecharge.

Maybe this is all just a marketing scheme to get people talking about the show.

Unfortunate if true but also... what were these producers thinking trying to mount this on Broadway?

These are the same producers of the drag race play that fell apart at New World last summer.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "These are the same producers of the drag race play that fell apart at New World last summer."

yikes.

QueenAlice said: "I wonder if the producers could work out a deal with a not for profit company like The Roundabout for this to fill a slot at a future date. It likely is inexpensive to produce, but would benefit from a subscription audience base."

I thought the exact same thing. This is a prestige show that requires a small theatre and a subscription house.

The Lyceum is a really undesirable theatre in dire need of some upgrades anyway.

For what it’s worth, I spoke to someone who works at the theatre and they aren’t aware of any cancellation beyond the rumors they’ve seen online.

I will say that, for a show that looks this relatively cheap to run, the ticket prices are OBSCENE. Like, at most, it should be nowhere near the $200+ range

QueenAlice said: "I wonder if the producers could work out a deal with a not for profit company like The Roundabout for this to fill a slot at a future date. It likely is inexpensive to produce, but would benefit from a subscription audience base."

A commercial play like this really belongs at the Greenwich House or the Lucille Lortel. We might be having the same conversation if Cole Escola's show was opening on Broadway (the main difference being Cole's show is produced by Kevin McCollum, who doesn't have trouble raising money).

Handing it off to a nonprofit producer is easier said than done. Investors invested with the expectation that this was a commercial production. Enhancing or co-presenting with a nonprofit completely changes revenue streams and basically relies on the nonprofit production being a hit, with commercial producers having the right to extend/transfer/tour it.

The other problem is a lot of money has already been spent.

Updated On: 2/8/24 at 10:15 AM

Contrary to your assertion, I’ve got a ticket and haven’t heard anything from Telecharge. At least not yet…