Tommy & Hercules

Has anyone heard anything about the Tommy revival or the Broadway production of Hercules that Alan Menken spoke about? Are they still on track to happen?

I figure that at this point in time, nothing can be counted on/guaranteed.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "After the recent FROZEN debacle, my guess is that Disney is not rushing to bring Hercules to Broadway and realizes 2 shows is the maximum number of shows that Disney should be having on Broadway at a time. (I would viewAIDAas an exception to that, since it's not eating directly into the Disney family audience)

My guess is we would see another out of town production of HERC before New York, being that they scrapped the book from the Shakespeare In The Park production and brought inTootsie's Robert Horn.

They also haveBeauty and the Beastin the pipeline."

TBH........ I really don't see Aladdin lasting much longer --- even before COVID, thier sales numbers were dropping off much like Frozen. Perhaps B&B will take the New Amsterdam?

Regarding Tommy, they initially said 2021, however while it was never confirmed, there were a lot of rumors that they'd first stage it at La Jolla again (like they did with the original) before transferring it. So I have no idea if that's still the case (or if it ever actually was), but if so, it seems more likely they'll have it as part of La Jolla's 2022-2023 season, likely putting it on Broadway somewhere early 2023. But that's obviously just pure speculation.

No, but safe to assume running costs are around $850K. Eyeballing, but looks like they were averaging about $1.3M per week, ~80% gross potential...really strong numbers for a show that had been running 6 years at the time of shutdown.

Tommy is now happening in the 2022-2023 season