THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
schubox
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/16
#2 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:47pm
Gonna miss Dave by one performance. Wish I hadn't jumped on the Patinkin stuff. I'd have been there for the last day
#3 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:47pm
Man...they didn't stand a chance after all that debacle...
schubox
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/16
#4 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:49pm
I also have tickets for December, how long does it take Telecharge to refund?
#5 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:49pm
Damn. As much as I knew this going to happen I was really pushing for it to hold out.
Timothy Davis
Swing Joined: 2/25/17
#6 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:49pm
This hurts my heart.
#7 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:50pm
Going to be there on Sunday. I think that's Ingrid's last performance.
#8 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:50pm
Wish I waited to buy tickets to see Davy. So sorry that it ends like this.
Cfried
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/16
#9 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:51pm
Very sad.
JustAnotherNewYorker
Broadway Star Joined: 12/20/16
#10 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:51pm
Sigh
Not unexpected, but still sad
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#11 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:51pm
wow wow wow. Hope to catch this one last time, maybe even for it's final performance. Wow. All I can say is that I have lost all respect for Oak, and the Kagens...well ever since the Ars Nova controversy....sad.
Willie4316
Leading Actor Joined: 9/12/16
#12 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:51pm
Was really hoping they could have held out at least a month or two more. Going to get tickets to a Dave performance ASAP
N. Wratch
Swing Joined: 8/3/17
#13 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:52pm
So disappointing. Shame on the Broadway "activists" that closed one of the most diverse and special shows on Broadway right now
#14 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:52pm
Literally across the street at the Jacobs right now..... so disappointed 
Sondheimite
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/14
#15 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:54pm
Hope Oak's happy with all the new POC actors out of work.
Broadway World's Fireman.
schubox
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/16
#16 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:56pm
Anyone in here seen Scott? Little bummed I'm missing Dave, even though I have seen him once
#17 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:57pm
The Ultra Left/Ultra PC crowd really need to take a look at themselves and look at the destruction they are causing. They have well intentions of course - but need to engage with the truth before further harm is caused. That said, it's possible Mandy could have come in and then the show close quickly after anyway. So perhaps all they did was cut the short lifeline.
"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
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#18 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:57pm
As long as everyone who was offended by replacing a black actor with a white one is ok, that's all that matters. Hopefully no one will ever EVER replace a black actor with a white one ever again because it's the worst thing a producer could ever do.
Who cares if about 100 ppl lost their pension, 401k, health insurance weeks, salary and the joy of performing on Broadway. People's feelings are safe now and that's what really counts.
What a joke.
#19 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:57pm
I was hoping so hard for them. My heart is broken.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#20 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 6:59pm
Scott's performance is very much in the vein of Dave's.
This is sad, but expected. Even before the debacle, making it through the fall was unlikely.
#21 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 7:00pm
I hope the materializations of a tour are true - people deserve to see this brilliant show. My heart breaks for the cast and crew.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
mullein
Understudy Joined: 8/23/16
#22 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 7:01pm
It genuinely baffles me that people are still managing to blame the Mandy controversy when it's clear now that a fall replacement was never lined up and the show would've closed sooner than later anyway.
#23 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 7:01pm
What a shame. My heart goes out to the insanely talented cast and crew.
ms_joaquin
Swing Joined: 1/10/17
#24 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 7:01pm
this is very sad, this show deserved more love. I'll never get over the lack of TONY love. wish the best for the cast and crew
Skimbleshanks2
Broadway Star Joined: 2/11/15
#25 THE GREAT COMET Announces September Broadway Closing; Final Performers for Role of 'Pierre'
Posted: 8/8/17 at 7:02pm
Thanks, Oak!
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