This show will only continue to run after Midler's departure if they can secure a replacement of similar stature. End of story. They're already looking for one. If they can't find one, the show will close, having earned back its money plus a tidy profit.
I adore Donna, and bought tickets specifically to see her. But she's not well-known outside of the NYC theater community. It's not surprising that her dates aren't selling briskly, especially considering how much of this production has become an event built around Bette's name.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 5/25/17 at 09:59 AM