Rumor: Ghost to post notice, Saving Aimee taking the Lunt Fontanne

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 5:02am

Take this with a grain of salt, but I am hearing GHOST could post its notice at any minute and that Kathy Lee Giffords musical Saving Aimee will be taking the Lunt Fontanne.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 6:31am

I still can't get past those words 'Kathy Lee Gifford"

[Huss417]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 8:33am

She might slap you as it is Kathie and not Kathy.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 8:45am

Isn't one horrid show about faith healing enough for the first quarter century of this or any other century?

[followspot]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 8:47am

She'll always be Kathie Lee Epstein to me.

[Huss417]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 9:34am

Wasn't she also Kathie Lee Johnson during the "Name That Tune" days? Must have sounded better then Epstein.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 10:53am

Unless they are transferring the production from a community Theatre in Bayone NJ, why would GHOST post any minuete?
The show would take at least 6 months to cast, rehearse, build, etc. etc. etc. Did I miss something?
Kathie: "People have been begging me to bring this to Broadway for years, so we got it up in 2 weeks and moved it into the Lunt."

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:53am

They've already begun casting and rehearsals are set to begin towards the end of the summer, late August/early September from what I've heard.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 1:06pm

Has this show ever worked anywhere?

Who's directing?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 1:20pm

David Armstrong is directing, with choreography by Lorin Latarro

[AnythingGoes23]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 1:29pm

Ghost is expected to close on Broadway end of August.

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 2:24pm

Saving Aimme had a successful run at the 5th this last fall in Seattle.

[mybestaudition]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 10:46pm

If by "successful" you mean it opened and ran then, yes. But it was not good. It was actually quite awful.

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 10:58pm

By successful I meant there was a lot of hype about it.

[massofmen]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:12pm

by successful you mean it was a subscription based audience with horrible reviews..then yes. This show will die faster than Leap of faith. unless the church groups come out in MASSIVE DROVES

[ArchiePelago]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:26pm

Wonder where they're going to put A Christmas Story???

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:30pm

I don't remember if they announced the organization A Christmas Story would be renting from (i.e. a Shubert house, a Nederlander house, etc), but if Matilda does indeed end up at the Shubert, as some are now speculating, I could see A Christmas Story moving in to fill the time between between Memphis and Matilda, since last I heard Matilda is not planning on opening until after the holidays.

[mybestaudition]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:55pm

A Christmas Story is going in to a Jujamcyn.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:58pm

That would mean it's taking the Hirschfeld.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/29/12 at 12:15am

I can't believe that GHOST is giving up the ghost.

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 6/29/12 at 12:38am

I thought I remembered hearing that CHRISTMAS STORY was taking the St. James after BRING IT ON finished its limited run. But I don't know if this is accurate.

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 6/29/12 at 12:53am

As long as Bring it on doesn't extend Christmas Story is planning to take the St James