Spelling Bee to tour!
Spelling Bee to tour!
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#0Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/16/05 at 7:29pm
Next season is going to ROCK!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92979.html
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BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#1re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/16/05 at 7:30pmWait...hopefully I will be away at college next season, lol. Damn!
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BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#2re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/16/05 at 7:47pmAnyone excited? Or has this been posted?
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#3re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/16/05 at 7:48pmI'm not sure how this show will work on the road. It is very esoteric, and the intimacy would probably be lost in a large regional house.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#4re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/16/05 at 7:49pm
To tell you the truth, there a lot of shows that are planning to tour that I don't see how they will work...
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Updated On: 5/16/05 at 07:49 PM
BillFinn
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/03
#5re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:03pmBKLYN will flop on tour. It's for a directed audience. New Yorkers. Spelling Bee will excel on tour for sure. Anyone who's passed the 2nd grade will adore it.
Bill Finn rocks. Woot.
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#6re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/17/05 at 1:18amLet's just hope that after it wins the Tony Award for best musical (knock on wood) they don't cancel the national tour in favor of a Vegas sit-down production!
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#7re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/17/05 at 9:22am
No one is every going to let that die...
*shakes head sadly*
#8re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/17/05 at 10:02am
"BKLYN will flop on tour. It's for a directed audience. New Yorkers."
I completely disagree. If that were so, then Rent would never have been a hit. Brooklyn is directed for American Idol audiences. I don't believe for a second that only New Yorkers see the show. I have a hard time believing New Yorkers would like it.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#9re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/17/05 at 12:38pmRENT is not directed only at New Yorkers. America, as a whole, is familiar enough with New York (thanks to TV and movies) that anyone can get the references made in RENT. BKLYN, also isn't directed at only New Yorkers. There aren't any real references to Brooklyn (other than the word itself as a name of a girl and a borough). It could have taken place in Seattle and still be as confusing, unmemorable, and nonsensical as it is right now.
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#10re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/17/05 at 12:53pm
"I'm not sure how this show will work on the road."
Pffft, it doesn't matter. It's Tony time...everything goes on tour! 
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
Updated On: 5/17/05 at 12:53 PM
broadwaybaby77
Leading Actor Joined: 10/17/04
#11re: Spelling Bee to tour!
Posted: 5/17/05 at 1:51pm
I'm excited!! I just saw Spelling Bee two days ago and am dying to get the CD.
I think that it'll do well, but it will lose the same effect of having it be in a smaller, enclosed space. It felt really intimate, like an actual school gymnasium, and hopefully they can carry that with them on tour.
-Grace
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