The Last Ship WITH Sting on TDF

[Famebroadway2]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 1:50pm

Only one date this week. ;o)

You're Welcome!

Updated On: 12/8/14 at 01:50 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 2:02pm

Sideshow is on for a ton of dates.January will be downright ugly

Sting will be on Kennedy Center Honors right before Christmas so TLS should get needed publicity than.

[WayTooBroadway]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 2:08pm

The Kennedy Center Honors happened last night, but the broadcast won't be until December 30th.

[Brian07663NJ]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 2:09pm

Can Last Ship stay above water for that long?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 2:14pm

It should last as long as Sting is in it. What kind of bump it gets from this & The Kennedy center exposure will not be known for awhile. It depends on how deep the producers pockets are and how much they will support the show.

Updated On: 12/8/14 at 02:14 PM

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 2:21pm

Thank you for this information. I am going on Wednesday night!

[JayG 2]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 3:36pm

Without ATrace, Check in on Thursday and let us know what you thought of it.
Great logo by the way.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 4:11pm

Unfortunately, when I saw the show at it's first preview on Broadway, I did not care for it. However, my friend and I have decided that Sting in his own show is an "event," so we are giving the show a second chance. We shall see!

Thank you Re: La Strada. I own the window card signed by Bernadette Peters and it is hanging on my wall as one of my most treasured pieces of theater memorobilia.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 6:02pm

The verdict is out on this one...STING starts this week for 4 weeks so we shall see if people want to see him or will the ship sink once he leaves in Jan?
Box office the past week was at 58.7% capacity that's an average of 792 seats a night in a house that seats 1349...ugh!?

[evic]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 6:25pm

Sting will certainly give the show a boost but if you check the Ticketmaster site for Jan., it looks like there will be more people on stage than in the audience. When he goes....so does the show.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 6:51pm

Give Sting credit. He belives in his show and is fighting like heck
for it. Unfortunately, it looks like an uphill battle.

Another one likely to bite the dust sooner rather than later.

Updated On: 12/8/14 at 06:51 PM

[April Saul]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 11:40pm

Okay, I have succumbed as well! I hadn't seen it, but a fan of Sting from Police days to the present, so this seemed like the thing to do...see y'all in the TDF seats on Wednesday

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 12/9/14 at 8:52am

Roxy, which side are you on? Sting is fighting for it but why bother? That's not a side.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/9/14 at 11:01am

I merely commend him for fighting for something he believes in

Hopefully it succeeds for the sake of those employed by it. Whether it does or not is of no consequence to me. If it does fine. If not, life goes on.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 12/21/14 at 11:13pm

Isherwood seems to have upped his opinion of the show:

Although it has its flaws, primarily in the somewhat tangled book, “The Last Ship” remains a musically entrancing show performed with grit and passion by an excellent cast. Why audiences haven’t warmed to it may have more to do with the narrowing of the Broadway audience’s tastes than anything else. An original musical with no familiar brand to exploit — particularly a show that doesn’t sell peppy uplift — has now become a quixotic, against-the-odds endeavor. This adds another layer of strange, sad symbolism to the central image of the show, that mighty vessel headed nowhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/arts/in-last-ship-sting-tries-to-not-steal-the-spotlight.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D