SIDE SHOW closing January 4th — Page 3

I just finished watching the Today Show performance and you could tell the girls were hiding their sadness behind their sadness. At the end, you could tell that Erin was about to break out into tears.

Kad... my thought for that comment was more or less based upon the new shows opening, crashing or finding a rough time finding an audience as well as new shows coming with an already doomed conversation:
- Rocky
- Big Fish
- Bonnie & Clyde
- Chaplin
- The Scottsboro Boys
- The Last Ship
- Honeymoon in Vegas
- The Visit

"If there was ANY flexibility on the closing date, though, it's kind of annoying that they chose the 4th, to continue the whole 'Hilton sisters haunting that date' myth. The first production's producers and this one's producers CHOSE that date. It's not a weird coincidence."

This is a quote from a theater historian's post on All That Chat:

"The original Broadway production closed on January 3, 1998, not January 4, although I know that several sites list January 4. The closing performance is discussed in this playbill.com article and this New York Times article.

The error may have first started appearing because it was holiday week. The show probably played an extra matinee, and so closed Saturday night rather than at the Sunday matinee that it otherwise would have played."

So close, but not quite.

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Updated On: 12/12/14 at 12:00 PM

It is sad. Is the fate of future new original musicals without the name brand association (Disney or a familiar artist).

So many hits have proven that wrong. Rent, In the Heights, Spring Awakening, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee, Drowsy Chaperone, Memphis, Noise/Funk, Urinetown... Even Hairspray and Matilda were not driven by major brand recognition as neither film was a universally recognized classic (like the source material for Wicked). And Matilda certainly does not resemble the mostly forgotten film in the least.

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Neon - OMG I don't want to doom ANY show! I LOVE The Visit!

Raised... I too felt the same way at the conclusion of their song. I thought it was fantastic! I am so happy I have tickets already to see it on December 18th (again).

"Morning's at Seven was a flop in its original production, and a hit in revival."

Morning's At Seven was revived 40 years after its first Broadway production; during that 40 years, the play had become a favorite of community theatres with a wealth of senior citizens. The revival ran about a year and a half. It was revived again 22 years later and only ran 3 months.

"Several Broadway flops had successful off-Broadway revivals: The Threepenny Opera, One a Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Moonchildren."

I'd hesitate using Threepenny Opera as an example - its initial (1933) Broadway production was a far cry from the show that had been a sensation in Germany, and the show didn't originate on Broadway. Cuckoo's Nest opened on Broadway with Kirk Douglas in 1963 and ran a few months, then was revived 8 years later at a now-defunct downtown theatre, where it ran for a 2 and a half years (with William Devane). Moonchildren is an interesting case - it opened in 1972 on Broadway with a cast that has gone on to significant success. It closed rather quickly; then was revived at the Lortel less than 2 years later and ran a year with a cast of names unfamiliar to me.

All interesting (if not quite representative) stories.

Yes, it's a genuine intellectual feast.

Has anyone done the student rush here? I'm looking to rush the matinee tomorrow and was wondering what time I should get there.

According to Wikipedia, both shows closed/closing January 4th.

Updated On: 12/12/14 at 05:26 PM

It closed Saturday 1/3 at the evening performance, at which I was privileged to be an audience member. "Triumph Of Love" closed the next afternoon on the 4th.

Here's an article from the 1997 NY Times confirming the dates:
Defeated, 'Side Show' Is Closing Jan. 3

Playbill Vault is wrong on this one; as the Times article states, it closed on Saturday the 3rd after the evening performance and "Triumph" and "Forum" closed on Sunday. I roadtripped out from the Midwest specifically to see the Saturday night closing. My friend and I saw "Triumph" in the afternoon, thinking the Sunday closing would be sold out and we had pre-bought for the "Side Show" closing. There was a standing ovation at the top of the show that lasted for several minutes before they started the music. After the show the audience wouldn't stop applauding, it was clear we expected some sort of curtain speech or something but finally Emily Skinner just signaled "Go home!" and the cast left the stage and that was that.

Memories, all alone in the moonlight.

Woah, that's weird. When you search the show it says it ended on the 4th, but when you click it it says it closed on the 3rd. Strange.

Theater Owner Pushes ‘Side Show’ to Close



Side Show Closing NY Times

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