Tours that are planned, but never happen.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:16pm

I'm curious as to why some Broadway shows announce a tour, then it never happens. Like Cry Baby. Wasn't it suppose to kick of this season? And no word. Same with Boeing Boeing. I checked Boeing Boeing's broadway site, it's gone. Same with the revival of Guys and Dolls, which announced a tour.

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:21pm

Most shows, even flops, seem to announce a tour in their closing announcements these days. Unless it's a long running show closing announcing a tour, I wouldn't take any of these announcements seriously until a tour press release is put out.

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:25pm

yeah where is the Curtains tour, I loved that show!

[WOSQ]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:42pm

Like everything else in show business there are a plethora of reasons for tours not happening.

Some tours are announced during Tony campaigns since one of the largest bloc of voters is road presenters. Some times they tour, sometimes not.

Some tours are announced and do go out. They just go for a few dates here and there. Doubt with Cherry Jones picked the cities they were sure they could get the houses they wanted. They did not do a comprehensive tour.

Any number of shows announce tours and then discover that there isn't enough interest shown by promotors or an unwillingness to meet the guanantees set. In my days as a production assistant, lo these many decades ago, we would send out feelers for all sorts of things. Most wouldn't get a bite. Would-be offerings like An Ideal Husband by Wilde years and years before the successful Broadway stand, a reconception of The Fantasticks setting it in a circus and a production of the two-hander Dear Liar with actors who were anything but stars, to name but three.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 2:22pm

Wonderful Town. Lucie Arnaz was set to star, but everything got canceled.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 3:19pm

There were plans for a tour of The Woman in White.

[philly03]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 3:49pm

"There were plans for a tour of The Woman in White."

The Woman in White tour was set for UK, and it was supposed to featured just 10 people and all the set things were worked out, and then was to transfer to a US tour, but it never happened !

[blaxx]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 4:50pm

It's what flops do to soften the blow.

[Neverandy]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 5:14pm

Atlanta TOTS was supposed to mount and manage the Curtains tour, but after the debacle last year with HSM2 I don't think they are sound enough financially to do something that large.

[sally1112]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 5:40pm

Hopefully the 9 to 5 tour happens!

[B3TA07]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 6:28pm

"Hopefully the 9 to 5 tour happens!"

Hahahaha you're funny

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 6:42pm

Hey, you never know. The Little Women tour still managed to happen.

[bryan]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 9:30pm

i hope cry baby get a tour and makes a cast cd of it because that show needs a cast cd made of it.

[Parks]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 9:49pm

I think it's safe to say that 9 to 5 will happen. Almost everyone has said that it will do much better on the road than it did on Broadway.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 9:52pm

Dolly's name will definitely sell 9 to 5 better in a good portion of the rest of the country than it did in NY.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 10:22pm

If you look at some tour booking sites, they normally show which tours that are booking. I saw 9 to 5, Shrek, Next to Normal, Rock of ages, 39 Steps, West Side Story, and God of Carnage. I know about Thebookinggroup.com or on the road. That's it.

[AlfieByrne]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 1:41am

Anybody remember how some people got upset that the 05 revival of Sweeney Todd lost to The Pajama Game, claiming that the latter show announced a tour just to win the award?

[sally1112]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 1:56pm

Next to Normal hasn't announced a tour have they?

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 7:46pm

I think it was said/announced somewhere that they are looking into planning one for next year? I haven't heard anything about it in a while and I don't think anything that was said was ever official.

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 10/3/09 at 2:02pm

When was The Little Mermaid supposed to tour? Next summer or fall?

[cliffarico]

Posted: 10/3/09 at 4:28pm

The tour of Golda's Balcony with Patty Duke never happened.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/3/09 at 8:04pm

The Little Mermaid is suppose to begin in the Fall.

[AC126748]

Posted: 10/3/09 at 8:06pm

The Golda's Balcony tour DID happen--just with Valerie Harper, not Patty Duke.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 10/3/09 at 8:13pm

I'm curious as to why some Broadway shows announce a tour, then it never happens. Like Cry Baby. Wasn't it suppose to kick of this season? And no word.

It was indeed supposed to start this season. It being called off kind of happened suddenly by NETworks. Syracuse even sent out their season announcement with it listed. I have an inkling that Young Frankenstein had something to do with Cry-Baby's sudden stop. Young Frankenstein suddenly appeared on NETworks' website. I think they were offered YF & got rid of Cry-Baby to make room for it.

http://www.networksontour.com/current-shows/

[me2]

Posted: 10/3/09 at 8:27pm

I hate that because it gets my hopes up, though I have now learned to not take it seriously. The saddest moment of my theatre life was seeing the promotion of WONDERFUL TOWN as part of the tour season . . . then seeing it canceled because of the whole Lucie Arnaz debacle.
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