The 2009-2010 Broadway real estate thread — Page 2

No clues as to what's going in the Kerr, Nederlander and Simon?

It's nice to know that a RAGTIME transfer is looking likely. Isn't A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC a Roundabout show? I imagine it's going into one of their houses once the respective limited engagements at their theatres close.

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Where do you think Sister Act, La Cage and Sunset will go to?

I think SISTER ACT is pretty much set to transfer at some point, I think what we don't know yet is whether it's this season or not.

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NIGHT MUSIC is a commercial production.

Gotcha, Wickedrocks.

I forgot that Roundabout is no longer producing A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and we're getting the Trevor Nunn production, yawn.

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Wasn't PURE COUNTRY announced for this past season too? I wonder if it's even coming to NY.

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My guess is that SISTER ACT is going to move in the fall of next year.

Patina Miller is contracted with the London production through May of 2010, so it would be feasible if she finished a complete run there and went into rehearsals that summer in preparation for a stateside launch to kick off next season.

Whoopi Goldberg said on The View that she thought it would be in New York "in the fall" when she made the initial announcement, but I got the impression she was taking a stab in the dark.

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I'm sure God of Carnage will be recast, so I wouldn't factor the Jacobs into this discussion.

What booked the Kerr for this fall?

Sister Act transfering is something the producers would like, but something that is still dependant on it being success in London. I don't think that will come over until the next season (end of 2010 earliest)

What about "First Wives Club" - isn't that coming in Autumn 2009? Shubert? Neill Simon? Broadway? I'm looking forward to this show coming in.

Finian's Rainbow, I'm still uncertain if this will definatrly happen! It won't last long I doubt if it does.

Dirty Dancing plays at a Nederlander Theatre in the UK so perhaps this will move into the Nederlander Theatre replacing Guys and Dolls

A Little Night Music is definatly coming in later in the year... i'm sure it'll find a theatre as it dosen't need a huge venue at all...same with La Cage and Sunset.

I think Phantom 2 also dosen't have a venue - I think Webber wants the Neil Simon but i doubt the have let him have it especially if he isn't planning on opening it now until about this time next year - plus nothing is concrete at all yet with that show - typical Webber.

I'm not sure Shrek will last past the Summer tourism...

Finian's Rainbow booked the St. James.

A Little Night Music might take the Walter Kerr. It's an appropriate house for this production. There's almost no set (a row of mirrored french doors), and in a theatre any larger than the Walter Kerr, the production would barely register.

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I'd love for NIGHT MUSIC to take the Walter Kerr, perhaps because it's where I saw GREY GARDENS which impressed me with its sophistication, but I find the Kerr itself to be such a classy, elegant theatre (which is kind of absurd to say since really most Broadway theatres are, but it's my personal thing) that I find it quite fitting for NIGHT MUSIC.

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