Suzy to shutter on Sunday?- Page 3

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 1:59pm

Oh my God, Michael. What play could overcome a title like that??

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 1:59pm

i think it only lasted one preview...

[sanda]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:02pm

my god, I got so much fun from this post!

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:06pm

Thats the show where Jean Arthur (always a little nuts) stopped during the first scene and introduced the cast to the audience and told them how she adored them all, and then said she couldn't do the play and walked out.

Gotta be one of the fastest closing shows in Broadway history, and definitely the fastest closing star vehicle.

[justme2]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:11pm

Are you kidding me? What a great story! I must locate more about this Jean Arthur show...

[gymman]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:16pm

http://www.moviecrazed.com/outpast/jeanarthur.html




THE DAY JEAN ARTHUR SAT DOWN TO DISH

It was 11:00 A.M. on a Sunday in May, 1972. "Do you drink in the morning, Mr. Flatley?" Jean Arthur asked me as she reached into a kitchen cabinet for a fifth of vodka. The notoriously shy actress needed that drink because for the first time in years, she had agreed to go up close and personal with the press. This interview appeared later that month in The New York Times. --Guy Flatley

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:25pm

I saw THE OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL. It was god-awful.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:34pm

Michael - how incredibly bizarre! Imagine being involved in THAT show...how horrible...

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:39pm

It's funny RATH though, occassionally you'll see a bio in a playbill of someone who survived CARRIE or MOOSE MURDERS or BOBBI BOLAND, and they usually wear it like a badge of honor! A true test of theatrical survival and as my best friend says -- "if you're going to be in something bad, be in something EXCEPTIONALLY bad."

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:41pm

So very true - I recall that Holland Taylor had MOOSE MURDERS listed when I saw her in THE COCKTAIL HOUR.

[justme2]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:43pm

"my boss at Columbia who put me on suspension for two and a half years and whom I almost found the perfect way of killing without getting caught." - Jean Arthur

Thanks so much for the link to that article, gymman!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:45pm

I have to say, even though I didn't see the show, that I couldn't figure out how she "bared her naked self" in the show when she wore:
A: Feather Boas
or
B: A Cheesy Inflatable Corvette

I think we heard the story enough to know that her father was an alcoholic and she screwed herself out of real fame by being too demanding about her pay.

We got it from her book, her interviews, her 'made-for-TV-movie'...

But to bring a vehicle like this to Broadway and expect the critics to be nice to you? I don't see it.

Maybe she should have stuck to more upbeat material…


'THIGH-MASTER, THE MUSICAL'



And, NO, the signed program won't be worth crap, unless she dies in some strange and horrible accident....preferably in front of an audience.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:48pm

I will honestly say it is not closing based on the material.

People see shows no matter what...especially if a "star" is in it.

I think Summers doesn't have a large enough fanbase willing and/or able to see the show.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:49pm

You're wrong there, Thenardier. She is a huge draw in Vegas.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:50pm

During the DRS opening, Joyce said she had Bway plans.

Now her I would see!

[Mimi Imfurst]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 3:03pm

Thigh Masterpiece Theatre?

[justme2]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 3:15pm

Thank you Mimi Imfurst, for my lunch time laugh.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 5:30pm

ok, the show is closing Saturday NOT Sunday

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 5:44pm

How nice. Now you can rest easier Toon.

[Kicks8567]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 5:56pm

I noticed in her bio that Darlene Love was in Carrie. I was surprised!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 6:31pm

I'm going tonight.

I'll post a full report when I get back. Can't wait!!!

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 6:52pm

I can't wait to read your review Margo!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 6:53pm

ooh. Me either!!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 6:54pm

Margo, you better not make us wait one damn second longer than we have to. I hope you don't have plans to go out after the show.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 6:56pm

Also, Margo, stay after the show, they have Q&As with suzanne