Taking Bets on when the Chorus Line revival closes! — Page 2

Luckily there are no flying witches, shrieking singers, singing vampires, helicopters or space ships in "ACL". I hope it runs for a long time!

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And how do you know there's no SRO?? The theater is eqipped with it.

I really think it's wrong to speculate on when it will close when it hasn't even opened yet.

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Waste of bandwidth.


And Harris, yes.

harris- As I stated earlier, I am NOT wishing it failure, I am predicting it. Frankly, as I have also said, I would love for it to run forever, however, I don't (And neither does my friend) think it will.

If the show is good, then I think it will last a while.

As far as the casting of Usher, I feel they are going for the African American dollar. That theatre is going to be full of young black kids and black people in general who don't normally go to the theatre. When I saw A Raisin in the Sun, the audience was 3/4 black kids with their cell phones taking pictures of P Diddy. It is great that these kids are going to get to see a good show, but after my Raisin experience, I think I may stay away from this type of stunt casting. JMO. And I am an African American for the record!

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Is Brenda Braxton going to play Velma at the same time?

If so, that is going to be like a Benetton version of Chicago: African-American Billy Flynn and Velma and a Mexican Roxie, he he.

Ozark, a lot of theatre fans are excited for this ACL revival.
Well, more for the fact that a show they have terrific memories of is coming back. If it is well received or not, we will see.
I think there will be more fair speculation after we see how it is presented. For now, it almost seems that ACL should had never left.

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Must we? Why do people feel the need to post threads like these?

I personally think this revival will do very well.

It will be a shame though if they don't at least do student rush for this.

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It may be good. But I think The Color Purple is attracting an older crowd. I didn't see a lot of teenagers when I saw it. But I could be wrong. And they weren't talking and taking pictures.

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Good. I hope it has something for us poor college students.

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According to Variety, apparently the advance sale has already topped $5 million (for an $8 million show) and that's with nearly NO marketing or advertising thus far (millions are set to be spent) and prior to even the very first preview of the out of town tryout in San Francisco.

In short, it's WAY too premature to start predicting the demise of a legendary beloved show (which will likely have another $10-15 million in the kitty before opening night on Broadway), especially given its longstanding international popularity and relatively low running costs (which is one of the main reasons the original was able to last 15 years -- even many years after it ceased to be a hot ticket, it was still able to run profitably versus the new blockbuster shows that came along season after season since it didn't cost much to run).

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Updated On: 7/19/06 at 02:20 PM

Wow, that is an excellent advance. I hope this revival sticks around for a while.

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