The Next 50 Years of B'way- Page 6
The Next 50 Years of B'way
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#125re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/7/06 at 8:07pm
2027. We all finally convince Bryan that the cast recordings he keeps petitioning for are never going to come out!!!!
2029. Lestat is released on iTunes and the casts of Good Vibrations and In My Life go into the studio and records the entire show. Bryan laughs at all of us.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
actor
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/06
#126re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/7/06 at 8:26pm
2007 - The Drowsy Chaperone Closes, The Pirate Queen opens and closes
2008 - Les Miserables closes
2009 - Shrek opens, does very well; Tarzan closes
2010 - Shrek wins best musical
2011- Jersey Boys closes
2012 - Avenue Q Closes
2013 - ACL closes, Stomp stops
2014 - A sit-down production of Riverdance in NYC
2015 - Riverdance closes
2016 - Revival of Peter Pan
2017 - Julie Andrews comes to Broadway
2018 - Legally Blonde closes
2019 - Spamalot closes
2020 - Spelling Bee closes
2021 - New Monty Python musical
2022 - Revival of The Producers
2023 - Hairspray finally closes
2024 - Chicago Closes
2025 - Revival of the Wedding Singer
2026 - Movie of Wicked; Rent Closes
2027 - Movie of Jersey Boys
2028 - Revival of Jersey Boys
2029 - Wicked stops touring, Wicked closes in NYC
2030 - Wicked closes in Chicago
2031 - Wicked closes in London
2032 - Revival of The Last 5 Years
2033 - Wicked closes in LA
2034 - Sutton Foster becomes a movie actress
2035 - Raven Simone comes to Broadway
2036 - Blue Man Group Closes
2037 - Dial M for Murder becomes a play
2038 - Murder on the Orient Express becomes a play
2039 - Dial M for Murder closes
2040 - And Then There Were None becomes a play
2041 - Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None close
2042 - Revival of Rent
2043 - Revival of Rent Closes; Revival of Hairspray
2044 - The Lion King Closes
2045 - The Beauty and The Beast Close
2046 - The Jungle Book comes to Broadway
2047 - Chicago closes
2048 - Another revival of The Fantasticks
2049 - The Wizard of Oz comes to Broadway
2050 - Interest in Broadway is decreasing
2051 - The Odd Couple is revived
2052 - Tarzan is revived
2053 - Grease is revived
2054 - Tony's cease to exist
2055 - The Fiddler on the Roof comes to Broadway
2056 - Broadway ceases to exist
#127re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/7/06 at 8:47pm
2050 - In My Life wins Best Revival
2055 - The Lion King closes
2060 - Les Mis is revived for the 10th time on Broadway, it finally closes in London
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#128re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/7/06 at 8:54pm2006 and onward until the day he dies: Mattbrain prays to God that actor's prediction for 2056 never comes true.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
actor
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/06
#129re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/7/06 at 9:04pm
In 50 years, who knows what might happen?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#131re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/10/07 at 12:32am2010: On the fifth anniversary of its wildly successful debut, The Blonde in the Thunderbird finally returns to Broadway.
Judy, Liza, Barbara, Bette, these are names I shant forget.
#132re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/10/07 at 2:25am
I refuse to accept that prediction of B'Way's demise! Sure, I'll be 70 by then and probably past caring (well that's a lie), but I think reports of B'Way's death have been greatly exaggerated since... well since B'Way was born really!
In other news, I'm traumatised by people's predictions of Wicked's longevity...
"Demons are prowling everywhere, nowadays..." - - Tobias, "Sweeney Todd"
#133re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/10/07 at 7:47am
2009: Lion King Closes
2011: "Ragtime" is Revived wins every Tony, Drama Desk, and Pulitzer, they were nominated for.
2012: Wicked closes
6 months later: Wicked is revived.
2016: Phantom closes and DRS is revived.
2020: Ragtime is still running , and gets nominated(and wins) for new tony category "BEST MUSICAL EVER"
2036: Les Mis (still on its "6 month limited engagement" moves to the circle in the square, but in order to make room for the set all but 20 seats are removed, due to lack of $$ Les Mis closes down "for ever" never to be revived.
2045: 6 new theatres a build in the style of the Hilton (Ford Center) in order for this to happen 6 theatres shut down to be combined with 6 others. The Marriot closes and opens 4 new theatres in their hotel.
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
Gelfling
Stand-by Joined: 4/5/05
#134re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/10/07 at 9:40am
2008: One of the Olsen twins is playing Roxy in Chicago... the other one demands a part and gets cast as Velma but the only available part is Mama Morton. She gets it instead.
2009: Sondheim FINALLY gives us a new musical. (I had to wish for SOME good news along the way! 
)
2012: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone headline Rocky vs Terminator: The Musical... movie to follow. During the promotion tour, Arnhuld announces he's running for president.
2016: Chicago celebrates its 20th anniversary on Broadway and announces that they intend to reunite Kevin Federline and Britney Spears on stage in the main parts.
I know I know... I'm a little harsh on Chicago but I am still digesting the recent casts.
"What book of rules says that theatre exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square-mile of New York City? Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre..."
desiree armfeldt
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/07
#135re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/10/07 at 11:04pm
this is a.m.a.z.i.n.g.
2040: 24: The Musical opens on Broadway to critical acclaim. It is considered an intensive theater experience as it is a full day performance...as in the audience sits in their seats for a full 24 hours. The show is performed every other day, as to give the actors time to rest. The ushers serve snacks in two hour intervals and there is a bathroom break following hours three, seven, twelve, seventeen, and twenty one.
#136re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/11/07 at 5:28am
"The ushers serve snacks in two hour intervals"
Patti LuPone won't be impressed!
"Demons are prowling everywhere, nowadays..." - - Tobias, "Sweeney Todd"
Chorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
#137re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/21/07 at 12:57pm2008: Nederlander sells Lean Cuisine and Sternos at Starbucks that built in to the theatres they own except for Rent, which has a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.
#138re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/21/07 at 1:19pm
2016: Chicago celebrates its 20th anniversary on Broadway and announces that they intend to reunite Kevin Federline and Britney Spears on stage in the main parts.
That made me giggle
#139re: The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 1/21/07 at 2:55pm
2010: During a performance of RENT, the "hunk of junk" to the side of the stage collapses and knocks over the ladder, while Mimi is performing OUT TONIGHT...the actress takes on some injuries. The producers of the show think it will cost much to replace it/fix it, so they simply shut down the show on Broadway.
(20 year period with no RENT on Broadway...)
2030: The producers from RENT, some of them now late into their lives, bound to die soon, realize that they could've just dug through a garbage can and thrown some Christmas lights together and there's a hunk of junk, once again. RENT is revived the following year with Justin Timberlake as ROGER and Cameron Diaz as MIMI...but then a replacement is cast in to take over for Cameron, due to the fact that the producers once again realize they were idiots and cast the role with somebody of the wrong ethnicity...
Yeah, wasn't REALLY funny but I was bored.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#141The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 2/5/07 at 2:59pm2050 - Brooke Shields still has yet to originate a role but continues replacing to the point that her cast recordings have their own place in all music stores, right next to a display of of "Tom Cruise Reads The Bible of Scientology".
I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!
#142The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/18/07 at 5:06pm
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2009: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN opens as a movie with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Aurora, Adrein Brody as Molina, Matt Damon as Valentin, and Jane Krakowski as Marta. It wins 5 Oscars, including Best Musical.
"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
#143The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/18/07 at 5:20pm
"2035: Disney acquires property in Times Square, forces the existing tenets to vacate and tears down the existing structures making way for a new towering Disney Times Square Resort complete with three brand new state of the art Broadway houses. The first show produced is SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON. The show features alternating celebrity guest narrators and is sung by a lone vocalist with Choreography by Twyla Tharp danced by an ensemble who dress as horses and Indians in costumes designed by the latest winner of "Project Runway"."
SPIRIT isn't Disney, and if Disney owned theatres, that would suck. I would want Neerlander theatres and 2 hotels.
"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
#144The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/18/07 at 5:31pm2025: Kathy Griffin My Life on the D-List the Musical opens at the places to rave reviews and sweeps the TONYS. Music by Lance Bass, Choreography by Renee Zellwegger, Book by JESSICA!! Produced by Barbra Walters.
#145The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/18/07 at 5:41pm
"2025: Kathy Griffin My Life on the D-List the Musical opens at the places to rave reviews and sweeps the TONYS. Music by Lance Bass, Choreography by Renee Zellwegger, Book by JESSICA!! Produced by Barbra Walters."
Norbert Leo Butz as Tom
Vicotria Clark (alternate Lea Salonga) as Kathy
Sherri Shepard as Tiffany
Jessica as Jessica
"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
#146The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/18/07 at 5:44pm
2008: Gypsy wins best revival of a musical, Patti gets her second Tony, Rent stunt casts again
2009: Grease revival closes, Legally Blonde stunt casts
2010: Ragtime is revived
2011: Hairspray closes, Wicked movie
2012: The Hunchback of Notre Dame comes to Broadway with Lea Salonga as Esmeralda
2013: Phantom finally closes
2014: CATS is revived
2015: Mary Poppins closes
2016: Grey Gardens is revived, Spamalot and Legally Blonde close
2017: CATS revival closes
Okay, so that's only the next ten years. I ran out of ideas. :)
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FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#147The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:03pm
This thread is awesome!
2009: Spring Awakening closes
2010: I win a Tony for Best Actor In A Musical "Aladdin"
2011: AIDA is revived and wins Best Revival of a musical
2012: POTO finally closes
#148The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:09pm
2010-Alladin closes due to HORRIBLE casting.
2011-Disney gets desperate and brings Bambi to Broadway.
Updated On: 11/18/07 at 07:09 PM
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#149The Next 50 Years of B'way
Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:34pm2012- Corine's Corner the musical premiers. Nobody can understand it due to the excessive use of commas and bad grammar.
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