Spring Awakening to move to Broadway — Page 2

Hehe, I scanned it from the CD Booklet. There are a bunch of others, one of my favorites being "Oops Girl At Sea!".

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Updated On: 7/20/06 at 12:40 AM

Foster, don't you remember how people speculated on BKLYN becoming the next RENT?

Just kidding around, I'm actually curious enough to see the show

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Updated On: 7/20/06 at 02:33 AM

Imagine Duncan Sheik a Tony Winner! Talk about a thrill!

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I am in my 40's and really enjoyed this show. Saw it the night before it officially opened. Met Duncan Shiek and he said that they are looking to record the music. It will be interesting to see how the show is staged on Broadway. Can't wait to see it again. Especially for the "Totally f***ed" song. That song just rocked!

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Sorry, folks. I give this one a month to close...maybe more since it's a cheap to produce production. The score is not memorable (LAME lyrics!), book is clunky (it's not a play screaming to be musicalized), and the whole thing not terribly emotionally involving at all. The only thing that gave it any power was the intimacy of the Atlantic theater space. Take it away and you have a weak show, indeed. Obviously there are people who love it, but when I saw it I overheard nary a single positive conversation and at curtain call only about one fourth of the audience stood (and we all know how audiences LOVE to stand for weak shows these days).

It blows my mind that the same critics who trashed BERNARDA ALBA for musicalizing Lorca jizz themselves over this.

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as much as i hate to admit it, i half-way agree with Borstalboy. While i differ in that i LOVED the score and music from it, it totally weighed on the fact that there weren't that many people in the theatre to take it all in.

i'm definitely going to have to see it twice now just to see what they altered and how it all came across. of course i'll always remember the good old days back when it was in Chelsea though

oh silly semantics like that can be easily done with a starewell leading down to the aisle.

i think what i would be concerned with was the way the stage was used so you could see every nuance going on. the movements that were chosen and the set designs gave the story an almost 360° feel to it that i think i would find hard comes across as 3D on stage.

staging is everything.

That is what I meant by staging in my earlier post. The set design made it feel so intimate to me, along with it being a smaller theatre. No stairwell was needed, it was just all right there.

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But how are shows like I Love You..., Altar Boyz, Tony N Tina..., etc. doing so well, if that is true? Not arguing your point at all--just curious what the difference is.

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Altar Boyz, according to its producer, hasn't paid back a dime of its capitalization so far. It constantly hovers around break even, making a few thousand one week and then losing a few thousand the next. It can run for a while like that, but at this rate it'll never recoup and end up as a flop whenever it finally closes.

I Love You, You're Perfect has a cast of 4 and one musician, so it costs nothing to run which is why it has lasted for years.

Tony N Tina is basically glorified dinner theatre (with a top ticket price of $125 for food and the show) and as such has a completely different financial model than regular Off-Broadway shows.

Jewtopia recouped and it has a cast of 6 and no musicians.

Spring Awakening has a cast of 14, plus understudies, plus 4 musicians. Simply put, you can't turn a profit with a show that large anymore, so Broadway is your only option (even if your show really doesn't belong in a Broadway-sized house).

Out of the hundreds of shows that have opened in commercial off-Broadway in the past 5 years or so, fewer than 10 turned a profit (including shows like Orson's Shadow that ran nearly a year). The handful that did all had tiny casts, good reviews, great audience appeal and word of mouth and somehow just got lucky,

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Sigh

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Margo, you are so smart. I want to be just like you.

:)

Sounds like moving SPRING AWAKENING will be more difficult than people thought. I wonder if/when it will happen.