Honestly, this feels just like the recent revival of The Music Man… majorly starry Broadway casts, great box offices, and then the hype fizzles out significantly, and the productions win no Tonys, yet once the contracts are up, show closes, announces tour, tour never comes to fruition, even though neither show had toured the country in over 20 years…
brdwybound04 said: "Honestly, this feels just like the recent revival of The Music Man… majorly starry Broadway casts, great box offices, and then the hype fizzles out significantly, and the productions win no Tonys, yet once the contracts are up, show closes, announces tour, tour never comes to fruition, even though neither show had toured the country in over 20 years…"
Music Man launches January 2026. Sweeney last toured the states less than twenty years ago, and the most recent Broadway mounting took home two Tony Awards. Sweeney’s national tour was announced a whole year before closing on Broadway.
brdwybound04 said: "Honestly, this feels just like the recent revival of The Music Man… majorly starry Broadway casts, great box offices, and then the hype fizzles out significantly, and the productions win no Tonys, yet once the contracts are up, show closes, announces tour, tour never comes to fruition, even though neither show had toured the country in over 20 years…"
The Doyle Production toured for over 2 years through 2009...
GiantsInTheSky2 said: "Music Man launches January 2026."
MUSIC MAN's upcoming tour is not the Jerry Zaks/Warren Carlyle production.
I assume it will be non-Equity since they're booking one-nighters. (Big League Productions is producing it and Broadway & Beyond is booking it.)
An Equity tour of the Zaks production could have been successful. It's also where some real money could have been made. But since Barry Diller had to begrudgingly pick up the pieces after Rudin's departure, I suspect he was fine with breaking even and calling it quits.