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Spider man closing.... enough said

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Borstalboy
#25Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 9:48pm

Somewhere Julie Taymor is trying to smile.


Oh, who are we kidding? She's on the phone with Dave Matthews talking about her latest "incredible idea," a dog-eared copy of THE HOBBIT nearby.


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Outoftowner2
#26Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 9:53pm

Will re-open in Las Vegas. Hopefully they will shorten it. When I saw it it just felt like it went on and on and on.

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onedaymore
#27Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 9:58pm

Well....it's official. Doubt it'll work in Vegas, either.


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#28Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:03pm

OH NO!
FLOPWOODS will never be the same!

Bring back HOT FEET!!!

no.. bring back CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG...

oh wait... never mind.

Updated On: 11/18/13 at 10:03 PM

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Alan Henry
#29Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:05pm

I think that 67% recoupment is a fair estimate otherwise it wouldn't be planning a second production in Vegas.

To get the figure I just took the reported grosses (downloaded from BWW), subtracted a 1M per week running cost, and took a percentage from the original 75M.





Going to Vegas!

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Phantom of London
#30Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:06pm

A friend of mine who is an actor got offered a job on Spiderman, but at the time he got offered another job working as a wrestler on the WWF circuit, he picked the later, as there was less chance of getting injured.

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bwayphreak234
#31Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:09pm

I will be surprised if this makes it to Vegas. It's like when flops announce national tours that won't happen. Except Spider-Man obviously cannot tour, so they are going the Vegas route.


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#32Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:12pm

"To get the figure I just took the reported grosses (downloaded from BWW), subtracted a 1M per week running cost, and took a percentage from the original 75M. "

You're way off base, as you are simply assuming this floating 75M figure is accurate. There is no telling how much that could have increased since last reported. Furthermore, the weekly nut -- which has never been confirmed -- does not include some of the fees and royalties that must be paid.

There is absolutely no way they are at 67%.

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bwayphreak234
#33Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:15pm

Somewhere Michael Riedel is probably as happy as a fat kid in a candy shop.


"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

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ucjrdude902
#34Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:21pm

I expect soon word on whats going into the Foxwoods or at least thats what I got told.

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jetts7
#35Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:27pm

I'm assuming "King Kong" or "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" will take the Foxwoods.

I actually really enjoyed this show and I'm sad for the actors and crew!

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ucjrdude902
#36Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:29pm

Not what I heard and didn't Charlie say they were going to give Matilda some time to have all the light?

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CapnHook
#37Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:29pm

They have NOT netted 67% of the final capitalization.


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RW3
#38Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:35pm

Personally, I would rather have a revival of Miss Saigon play at the Foxwoods.

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everythingtaboo
#39Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:46pm

I literally just finished the Song of Spider-Man book this morning, and came away really hopeful that despite everything, they could somehow make this a long-running show. No one goes into a project of this magnitude hoping it'll fail, so I do hope with all the research down, it'll have a life beyond Broadway with the tweaks they always wanted to put in down the road.




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Mr Roxy
#40Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:49pm

The investors got a gift that it played this long. They should get more of their $$ back from the Vegas run.


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Jonwo
#41Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 10:53pm

Charlie likely will not come to Broadway until late 2015 at the earliest since Sam Mendes is busy with different projects in particular the next Bond film. I think the Foxwoods or Broadway is the most likely theatre for it although I imagine it depends what's available.

I wouldn't be surprised if Miss Saigon makes a return although I imagine not until 2015 or 2016, I imagine Cameron Mackintosh will see how the London revival is received before bringing it to Broadway, Updated On: 11/18/13 at 10:53 PM

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dramamama611
#42Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 11:11pm

75 mil was a pretty early figure....it was then stated they broke 85 mil, and then rumors flew that the real number was even higher.

Also, the figure to break even was more like 1.2 mil; although a poster said that more recently, they had re-negotiated a few things which brought their nut down to 1 mil. (I cannot substantiate any of that as anything other than hearsay.)

I'd guess MAYBE they got 50% return. And what suckers could they get to give them MORE money to get a Vegas production going?


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Mr Roxy
#43Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 11:13pm

The hotel that it will be in will put up a nice chunk of the cash.


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justincharacter
#44Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 11:21pm

...or a revival of Into the Woods produced by Disney, with incredible stage effects.

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Phantom of London
#45Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 11:27pm

Its up on Playbill, so official.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/184581-Spider-Man-Turn-Off-the-Dark-to-Close-on-Broadway-in-January-2014?tsrc=hpt2

Congratulations to Michael Cohl who has the dubious distinction of having the biggest flop in West End history with The Lord of the Rings and now the biggest flop in Broadway history with this.

FindingNamo
#46Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 11:36pm

Congratulations to Bono & The Edge for their triumphant score and all the major radio hits it produced and for successfully demonstrating how to publicly stab your collaborators in the back. Better to close now than make 1dollar profit that might have to go toward the settlement with Taymor.


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Play Esq.
#47Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 11:40pm

Trying to squeeze out an opinion either way, but I simply can't. This show was not made for Broadway, but rather, the tourist trade that occasionally patronizes Broadway. Which is to say, it is perfectly set for Las Vegas!

Enjoy, Mandalay Hotel!

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Play Esq.
#48Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/18/13 at 11:47pm

Squeezed enough for my greyhound brunch on Saturday!


bk
#49Spider man closing.... enough said
Posted: 11/19/13 at 12:33am

"Just ran some numbers. Assuming a weekly cost of 1M (which I've read a number of times), as of last week spiderman has netted $50,015,743 (based of a total Gross of $203,015,743).

I mean, based on how expensive it is to run each week, the fact that they've grossed after running costs just over 50M is actually quite impressive. Obviously they're still not near the original investment, but the amount they've made back thus far isn't terrible (67%). I feel like this could have a life somewhere after Broadway.

Mind you, I haven't actually seen it so I'm going based off it's commercial appeal and what I've read."

Do you really think that you, a teen (if your avatar is you) should be posting about recoupment, of which you know nothing? Really, it's chutzpah or something else of the highest order :) Only on the Internet. The producers of this thing are never going to say how much they did or did not get back to the investors. My guess? 0.


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