Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:16pmI'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.
#2re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:21pmMost 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.
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#2re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:25pmyeah where is the Curtains tour, I loved that show!
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#3re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
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.
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#4re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 2:22pmWonderful Town. Lucie Arnaz was set to star, but everything got canceled.
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#5re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 3:19pmThere were plans for a tour of The Woman in White.
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philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#6re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
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 
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blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#7re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 4:50pmIt's what flops do to soften the blow.
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#8re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 5:14pmAtlanta 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.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#9re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 5:40pmHopefully the 9 to 5 tour happens!
#10re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 6:28pm
"Hopefully the 9 to 5 tour happens!"
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#11re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 6:42pmHey, you never know. The Little Women tour still managed to happen.
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bryan
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#12re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 9:30pmi hope cry baby get a tour and makes a cast cd of it because that show needs a cast cd made of it.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#13re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 9:49pmI 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.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#14re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 9:52pmDolly's name will definitely sell 9 to 5 better in a good portion of the rest of the country than it did in NY.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/1/09 at 10:22pmIf 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
Stand-by Joined: 8/12/09
#16re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/2/09 at 1:41amAnybody 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#17re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/2/09 at 1:56pmNext to Normal hasn't announced a tour have they?
#18re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/2/09 at 7:46pmI 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.
#19re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/3/09 at 2:02pmWhen was The Little Mermaid supposed to tour? Next summer or fall?
cliffarico
Featured Actor Joined: 10/5/03
#20re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/3/09 at 4:28pmThe tour of Golda's Balcony with Patty Duke never happened.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/3/09 at 8:04pmThe Little Mermaid is suppose to begin in the Fall.
#22re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
Posted: 10/3/09 at 8:06pmThe Golda's Balcony tour DID happen--just with Valerie Harper, not Patty Duke.
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TheatreFan4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/09
#23re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
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/
#24re: Tours that are planned, but never happen.
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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