SPECULATION thread -- vacant theaters

[Rodgerdodger]

SPECULATION thread -- vacant theaters#1

Posted: 8/17/12 at 4:39pm

**THERE'S NO FACTS TO BACK ANY OF THIS UP. IT'S ALL JUST SEMI-EDUCATED GUESSING. IF ANYONE HAS BETTER GUESSES/CORRECT INFO, PLEASE SHARE.**

Currently, four theaters haven't announced their fall/early winter productions. This is just an all-purpose thread to talk about what might go in them.

Rodgers -- has a tenant, but hasn't announced it. I'm going to guess The Nutty Professor, since Motown isn't slated to open until 2013.

Sondheim -- transfer of If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. The only upcoming film on Jake Gyllenhaal's IMDB page is one he's merely rumored for. I'm willing to bet if the reviews are good, and the hot (in every sense) star draws a crowd, we'll get a Jan-June run.

I'm not at all sure about the Lyceum and the Circle.

By the way, I'm Rodgerdodger. Nice to meet you all.



Updated On: 12/12/12 at 04:39 PM

[theatreguy]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#2

Posted: 8/17/12 at 4:48pm

I'm guessing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has the Rodgers.

[CurtainPullDowner]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#2

Posted: 8/17/12 at 8:56pm

MOTOWN has a theatre, not the Rodgers.
Early 2013.

[CapnHook]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#3

Posted: 8/17/12 at 9:10pm

CurtainDownPuller, not sure your sources, but mine are that MOTOWN is Fall of 2013. Not Spring. It's next season.

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is a good guess for the Richard Rodgers.

Could HANDS ON A HARD BODY be possible for the Circle In The Square? I suspect (my own suspicion, not based on any insider info) that the Lab they're doing this Fall is to see if it's possible to do in the round.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[aasjb4ever]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#4

Posted: 8/17/12 at 9:43pm

I think the Jake Gyllenhaal Exploitation Hour will be like Roundabout’s Sons of the Prophet from last season. It’ll extend several times off-broadway, but a Broadway transfer under the Roundabout umbrella will be impossible because the subscribers already saw it. If it were to transfer commercially, it would be another story.

I’m calling Nutty Professor at the Sondheim.

[aasjb4ever]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#5

Posted: 8/18/12 at 7:22pm

Bumpers

[trentsketch]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#6

Posted: 8/18/12 at 8:19pm

I have no inside knowledge, but I could see Hands on a Hardbody in Circle in the Square. It could add something to the storytelling and give them more ways to pull the cast away from the truck than "go downstage." All the stories about the show after the reviews came in suggested a quick push for Broadway.

[CurtainPullDowner]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#7

Posted: 8/19/12 at 2:04am

You could be right Capt.
We shall see, none of these Theatres are gonna be empty for long.

[grumpyoptimist]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#8

Posted: 8/19/12 at 11:51am

I dunno, I have a hard time seeing Hands on a Hardbody work at Circle in the Square. Saw it at its run at the La Jolla Playhouse, the truck is more of a co-star in the show as some of the lesser players. If you put one on that stage, you're gonna end up blocking a good part of the lower rows from being able to see what's happening on the other side. Unless you were to have one commissioned out of lucite or something clear. Then again, I'm still trying to get the horror of Godspell in that space out of my head...

[bdn223]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#9

Posted: 8/19/12 at 3:09pm

Hands on Hardbody can use the Circle in the Squares extreme thrust formation and just wheel the truck in and out in during the musical numbers. They can also do what the Ragtime revival did with their Model T, and build it out of PVC pipe which would add to the symbolism of the truck being simply more than a way to get from point A to Point B. That may be an issue though since from the videos of the production I have seen they truck is used as a percussion instrument as well.

Updated On: 8/19/12 at 03:09 PM

[CurtainPullDowner]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#10

Posted: 8/19/12 at 6:23pm

That RAGTIME car sucked.

[Rodgerdodger]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#11

Posted: 12/12/12 at 4:28pm

Bumping this thread for late winter/spring of 2013. Assuming Breakfast at Tiffany's does take the Cort, by my count, there are 11 theaters with nothing lined up for then:

Barrymore
Belasco*
Booth*
Golden
Longacre
Music Box*
Marquis*
Simon
Kerr*
St. James
Studio 54*

* = current production could conceivably extend

Let the speculation begin.

Updated On: 12/12/12 at 04:28 PM

[bdn223]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#12

Posted: 12/12/12 at 4:41pm

I would keep an * next to the Marquis because they may pull a "A Little Night Music"

[uncageg]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#13

Posted: 12/12/12 at 5:00pm

Isn't Trip to Bountiful going into the Sondheim?

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[broadwayfever]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#14

Posted: 12/12/12 at 7:35pm

Maybe it's because they got tired of all those standing ovations and there mad as hell and there not going to take it anymore.

[Rodgerdodger]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#15

Posted: 1/31/13 at 9:19pm

We're now down to seven:

Belasco
Longacre
Rodgers
Simon
St. James
Studio 54*
New Amsterdam

* = Could conceivably extend

I know Big Fish and the Les Miz tour are slated for the Simon and New Amsterdam, but I wondered if either were getting short-term tenants. Also, is The Miss Firecracker Contest still on? I seem to recall it being a Shubert production.

[frogs_fan85]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#16

Posted: 1/31/13 at 9:25pm

Is GLASS MENAGERIE transferring from ART? I remember hearing wind of that when Celia Keenan-Bolger left PETER.

[CapnHook]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#17

Posted: 1/31/13 at 9:29pm

Les Miz tour has not officially announced.

Rumored shows for this season:

- DETROIT
- MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST
- VELOCITY OF AUTUMN

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[ghostlight2]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#18

Posted: 1/31/13 at 9:45pm

"Studio 54*

* = Could conceivably extend"

Beyond March 10th? Not going to happen.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#19

Posted: 1/31/13 at 10:04pm

I talked to Stephanie about a month or so ago and asked if there was any word on an extension, and she said it was highly unlikely. So Studio 54 is most likely going to be available.

[CapnHook]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#20

Posted: 1/31/13 at 10:07pm

Also- whatever happened with ALLEGIANCE? They still coming this season?

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[Neverandy]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#21

Posted: 1/31/13 at 10:32pm

Allegiance is getting another workshop this spring I believe. Still some stuff that needs to be polished from the San Diego version before it comes in possibly next fall. Les Mis is not coming in until at least after its Toronto run concludes (early '14?)

Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?

[dramamama611]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#22

Posted: 2/1/13 at 6:10am

Re: Glass Menagerie -- nothing has been announced. Seeing it next weekend, though.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[Phantom of London]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#23

Posted: 2/1/13 at 10:59am

Love Never Dies is going to take the Simon.

[aasjb4ever]

SPECULATION thread -- the four vacant theaters#24

Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:19am

^Oh my god is it 2010 again?