The Fate of Once On This Island- Page 2

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:59am

CBS needs to make the Tony performance available on YouTube ASAP. It's the type of performance that is meant to be shared on social media.

[Wick3]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:01am

We'll see how it fares with ticket sales. From reading my FB feed, a few friends just bought OOTI tickets!

[MarkBearSF]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:15am

I've been reading and hearing raves about OOTI since it opened, but always figured it'd be closed before our visit on Labor Day week. I left a slot open and always figured if it's still going mid-summer, I can pick up tickets with a discount.

Tonight, after the win, I decided to buy 2 tix at full price (prime front row seats about 1/3 way down a long side - still not expensive for Bway these days) - just to give my vote when they look at the advance sales.

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 6:29am

Is is possible for it to be last season's Gentleman's Guide?

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 8:30am

I think with it's win it'll do very well during the summer. I see it lasting until the end of the year now.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 8:35am

^Thinking the same thing.   That will but it in "respectable" run category for a musical.  Successful revivals seem to run about 18 months.

 

Suprised, but VERY happy for them.  

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:03am

Yeah, musical revivals don't last long, even with a Tony win. The last ten winners and their runs:

 

2017: Hello, Dolly!(550 when it closes on Aug. 25)

2016: The Color Purple(450)

2015: The King & I(499)

2014: Hedwig & The Angry Inch(507)

2013: Pippin(709)

2012: Porgy & Bess(293)

2011: Anything Goes(521)

2010: La Cage aux Folles(433)

2009: Hair(519)

2008: South Pacific(996)

[Jarethan]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:18am

When the number was over, both my wife and I said at the same time 'that number is not making me want to see the show any more than I didn't want to see it before the show began'.  I am sure that it will get a little boost from the win, but don't think the show is going to benefit sufficiently to last past Labor Day (I do imagine that it will do a little better at the box office for the next month or so, however).  I am guessing that there are two shows that will get some benefit from last night: clearly TBV, which i imagine will get at least another year out of last night (think Gentleman's Guide) will now do a lot better on the road as well; and on a much smaller scale Angels.  Three big wins and limited remaining run may create more demand in the remaining time open.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:28am

It seems like there was just something about South Pacific that made it run twice to three times as long as the other revivals. Maybe because Sher productions were new and novel at the time, and it'd been a while since we had a first-rate Rodgers and Hammerstein production on Broadway. Maybe it's the concept and material that attracted people. I don't see Once on This Island hitting that number, but I can see it having a pretty good run.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:28am

It seems like there was just something about South Pacific that made it run twice to three times as long as the other revivals. Maybe because Sher productions were new and novel at the time, and it'd been a while since we had a first-rate Rodgers and Hammerstein production on Broadway. Maybe it's the concept and material that attracted people. I don't see Once on This Island hitting that number, but I can see it having a pretty good run.

[bandit964]

Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:37am

So interesting, Jarethan. My bf and I looked at eachother after OOTI's performance and said, "well now we HAVE to see it."