Sunset Stunt
Sunset Stunt
macbeth
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/03
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
BorisTomashevsky
Broadway Star Joined: 4/30/22
#3Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 3:22pm
Refund an entire performance for a Tony promotion? There’s no world where that makes sense. Especially when the box office hasn’t been what they hoped.
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 3:44pm
Is this another Sunset vs Gypsy thing?
I guess you don't understand about unions, so on and so forth of what needed to be done yesterday just because of a cancelled performance.
There is nothing to gain. The show is closing July 13th.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#6Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 3:47pm
macbeth said: "Anyone else think it was a Rick Miramontez Tony stunt?"
Canceling an entire performance, then having to deal with rebooking/refunds, for a “stunt” that could have gone horribly wrong? Nah.
jimmycurry01
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
#7Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 3:53pm
Are you suggesting that they chose to refund an entire house so a show that has already announced it's closing, and has no plans on touring, could take home a trophy? What could possibly be the gain in a stunt like that? It's not like that trophy is going to make a significant difference in revenue for a show that closes July 13th. The lost revenue from the refunds may be greater than the added revenue of what a Tony win could bring in those few remaining weeks. I'm not saying it is impossible that it was a stunt, but it seems illogical and unlikely.
MB124
Swing Joined: 8/19/22
#8Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 4:12pm
This is the dumbest accusation I’ve heard in a long time. Get a grip.
Updated On: 4/24/25 at 04:12 PM
Wayman_Wong
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#9Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 4:18pm
Rather than let her audience leave the St. James just bummed out by the matinee's cancellation, Scherzinger chose to do something to acknowledge them and show her appreciation. If I were in the house, I would've cheered her gracious effort, not sneered at it.
BETTY22
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/13
#11Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 4:44pm
Producers barely want to refund an audience for a legitimate reason- do you really think they'd refund an entire house and lose tens of thousands of dollars in order to get a clip that's already faded in relevance?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#12Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 4:54pm
If it was a “stunt” to get that video out, I can almost assure you they would have magically found a way to resume the performance after getting the viral footage they “wanted”.
Bwaygurl2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/8/22
#13Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 5:11pm
Conspiracy theory lunacy has left the fringes and has taken over every aspect of American life.
#14Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 5:15pm
macbeth said: "Anyone else think it was a Rick Miramontez Tony stunt?"
It was not as I know backstage staff at the St. James.
Come on people, get a life!
https://people.com/nicole-scherzinger-sings-into-bullhorn-after-sunset-blvd-performance-canceled-11721030
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"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#15Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 5:48pm
The lengths people have gone to trying to destroy Nicole’s tony chances is obscene. Is Arthur Laurents still alive orchestrating this smear campaign?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Callas2
Swing Joined: 4/24/25
#16Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 5:51pm
Absolutely! The free free press the show got from this. NY Times immediately published, plus most of the audience was filming with their phones and posting on social media. The amount of publicity it got is worth much more than canceling a matinee performance.
Callas2
Swing Joined: 4/24/25
Callas2
Swing Joined: 4/24/25
#18Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 5:56pm
NY times article. The entire audience filmed the moment- its all over social media- people re-posting in all platforms. There is not enough money in the world to buy that kind of publicity.
dan94
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/15
#19Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 6:18pm
binau said: "The lengths people have gone to trying to destroy Nicole’s tony chances is obscene. Is Arthur Laurents still alive orchestrating this smear campaign?"
Arthur Laurents would be Team Nicole to prove Only He could direct a Tony Winning Rose. A vote for Nicole is a vote for Arthur Laurents! (joking)
wiggum2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/03
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#21Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 7:09pm
binau said: "The lengths people have gone to trying to destroy Nicole’s tony chances is obscene. Is Arthur Laurents still alive orchestrating this smear campaign?"
Nicole gets free coverage in the NYT, People and multiple other sites.
PeOpLE R tRyInG 2 dEStRoY Nicole's ToNy ChANcEs!!!!!!
🙄
MB124
Swing Joined: 8/19/22
#22Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 8:14pm
Callas2, do you have anything to add to this Board besides trying to convince people that this was a stunt?
You joined TODAY and it’s all you’ve posted about.
Some of y'all desperately need to touch grass.
fray3
Swing Joined: 2/13/25
#23Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 8:29pm
I would think its possible for people to ask real questions or have legitimate ideas, and not be insulted for wondering about something. Just because you might not agree doesn't mean you need to be nasty.
#24Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 9:39pm
This is quite possibly the dumbest accusation I have ever read on these boards.
"ThEy GoT fReE PrEsS!!!!" Mary, the box office is below what they want and they are closing in mid July. If you think the benefits of this free press outweighs having to refund an entire performance of a run in its final months....I beg you to never go into Marketing or PR. Some people are really just out here saying stuff.
PipingHotPiccolo
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/22
#25Sunset Stunt
Posted: 4/24/25 at 9:58pm
Bwaygurl2 said: "Conspiracy theory lunacy has left the fringes and has taken over every aspect of American life."
Exactly, perfectly put.
There will always be conspiracy theorists who think their fact-free suspicions are signs of intelligence when they are actually signs of the opposite--so thats not new. But what IS new is this idea that if you make up some half-baked, proof-free theory, its OK because you're "just asking some questions"--about Obama's birth certificate, about vaccines, about The Jews, about The Moon Landing, about a matinee of Sunset...
the root is the same: an allergy to, or disregard for, facts.
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