Shows That Have Closed...

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:09pm

Working on a project that is due tomorrow. Can any of you think of shows that have closed or announced their closings since the strike has ended? Any help would be great.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:12pm

Spelling Bee
Drowsy
RENT (announced)
The Color Purple (announced)

Um...

The Farnsworth Invention (announced)

Updated On: 2/13/08 at 09:12 PM

[BlueWindSadness]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:15pm

off the top of my head:

Announced closings : RENT, The Farnsworth Invention

this is hardly a help, but I guess its more than nothing!

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:15pm

Spelling Bee had announced it before the strike, though, right? And wasn't Fansworth a limited run?

[carolineorchange]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:20pm

I'm pretty sure that spelling bee announced after the strike.

They were open through the strike so their box office benefited a lot during it.

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:24pm

Farnsworth was open-ended, but I'm sure they didn't expect it to play very long. It was sort of, in effect, limited.

Is He Dead? has announced informally that it is in its "Final Weeks", but that could mean anything. Either way, its not selling well, so if (as I'm guessing) your paper is about the effects of the strike, the low grosses like those of Is He Dead? could very effectively illustrate that.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:26pm

Spelling Bee announced the closing on November 7th, which was a Wednesday. I think the strike started the following Saturday on the 10th. The Farnsworth Invention was not announced as a limited run.

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:33pm

Great, thanks. So you know, I AM working on something about the strike. It's sort of a debate about how there were no lasting effects of the strike. I am taking the side that says there were. Even if the shows were doing poorly before hand, they would have brought in an audience that week and that may have helped to let them run a few more weeks. Kind of weak, but it's last minute, yay.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:37pm

None of the shows which posted closing notices were a direct result of the strike.

Farnsworth and Is He Dead? were bubble shows which opened after the strike. Color Purple lost its luster when Fantastia left. Drowsy lost its luster and closed because it wasn't doing well pre-strike, and with CryBaby coming in, it would have closed anyway.

And the strike had absolutely no bearing on Rent.

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:39pm

I never said direct effect, but for sure the strike played some role, however small, in the closings.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:49pm

The strike played minimal to absolutely NO effect on the closings of these shows. Leaning heavily towards no effect at all.

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 10:44pm

What kind of class is this?

[bluetuna]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 2:50am

"Les Miserables" closed after the strike ended, but that was planned ahead of time, so the strike was irrelevant to that.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 2:52am

Spelling Bee was also under a different contract anyway so if anything, their business was helped by the strike.

[bluetuna]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:38am

Yeah, "Spelling Bee" was actually helped by the strike.