[Title of Show] Transferring BACK Off-Broadway?

Over at ATC, they're talking about the possibility of the show transferring back off-broadway. Has anyone else heard anything about this? It would be fantastic if it were true!

it would make sense, smaller venue, probably lower running costs

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I honestly think the only way for the show to move on from here and make it seem organic is to go on a national tour. Fingers crossed.

I would LOVE for the show to continue, even if it means going Off-Broadway.

BUT what I was attempting to say in my original post was that going back to Off-Broadway is a bit of a "demotion" for the show, if you will. Being on Off-Broadway again and singing about wanting to be ON broadway, especially after they have been on Broadway and closed soon thereafter does not make sense to the show's fabric or storyline (it does, however, to the message of being nine people's favorite thing).

Taking the show on tour would, I think, work because it can be promoted as coming from Broadway, which it did, and remain true to the show's storyline and roots without being seen as backpeddling. And most of the tickets in touring houses are subscription seats anyway. Most people haven't heard of "Frost/Nixon" (yet) or "Spring Awakening" (yet) and are going to see the shows because they have tickets, not because they heard about it and can't wait to go see it.

Wouldn't that kind of go against the "can do" feeling of the [s]? I say let it go and move on to something new.

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"Wouldn't that kind of go against the "can do" feeling of the [s]? I say let it go and move on to something new."

I don't think it goes against the "can do" feeling at all. For a little show with 4 actors, 4 chairs and a keyboard it's done amazingly well and has already had a longer life than countless Broadway shows that have lost millions and millions of dollars after closing in much less time.

This is just another step in their journey and if it that journey happens to lead to a longer run at a smaller venue than that's what it is. [Title of Show]'s audience is still growing (even though the grosses sadly don't show it) so a transfer somewhere like New World Stages would give the musical a chance to live quite a while longer.

I think it's time to let go...

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Jesus Christ, enough already. Just let it go. Hasn't every insane title of show fan already seen this thing dozens of times already and isn't that enough to last a freaking lifetime? How many more hundreds of threads do we need cluttering up this board about title of show this or title of show that? It is playing to 30% capacity on Broadway. Abysmal. Let this fade into a book about legendary flops, where it belongs.

Updated On: 9/23/08 at 02:44 PM

Oh sorry, Insider2. I didn't get the email telling me that I needed to double check with you before I posted something that (and let me know if I'm wrong here) was newsworthy.

In the future I'll be SURE to cc you on anything I'm interested in discussing.

When I was a kid, my mother drank the occasional bitter lemon.

Sounds like some people here are gorging on them.

I saw the show in July and picked up the CD a month later and all it's done is enhance the experience and make me want to see it again even more.

I was in the city Saturday to see Equus and to escape Times Square crowds, my partner and I ducked through Virgin and headed up 46th St, where I broke out in a big smile upon seeing the people hanging around the TOS stage door.

title of show is like flushing money down a toilet to watch four snarky idiots verbally masturbate themselves and each other for ninety minutes. If you like that kind of thing, knock yourself out. It is barely even theatre. I on the other hand, want my money back and I want my ninety minutes back. Good riddance to an inferior piece of absolute garbage. May it rest in hell.

Updated On: 9/23/08 at 03:36 PM

I'm praying that TOS comes to Los Angeles. I'd be the first one to buy tickets!