Update: AIN'T NO MO extended thru December 23! Yay!

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 6:18pm

Per an email from Telecharge.

Updated On: 12/15/22 at 06:18 PM

[Duckie4]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 6:19pm

I was just coming here to post the same. I was supposed to see it Jan 5. Unbelievable. 

[blaxx]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 6:33pm

I had tickets too. Heart breaking.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 6:34pm

It’s not unbelievable - the writing was very large and on the wall from the numbers. 

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 6:54pm

Unless it tells you at checkout, the show is still on sale past the 18th.

[Jimbo2]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 7:03pm

At the Belasco? Telecharge has tickets on sale thru February.

[trpguyy]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 7:17pm

Apparently ticket holders received this email from Telecharge. 
 

https://twitter.com/sebbytauriello/status/1601362951898038273?s=46&t=0s34bSo75cjRcBAsQoauUw

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 7:27pm

Hearing it is closing is angering me because I had plans to go see it at the end of the month and bring friends who I know would LOVE it. They made the weird art. I was all too happy to consume it. I know the economics weren’t favorable, but I still hoped the cash infusion from the Wades and RuPaul would’ve helped a little bit.

LONG LIVE PEACHES AND MISS BAG! 

[veronicamae]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 7:38pm

Jimbo2 said: "At the Belasco? Telecharge has tickets on sale thru February."

Sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing - or can't do it quickly enough.

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 8:15pm

https://twitter.com/JordanECooper_/status/1601367427409154048

[LuPita2]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 8:22pm

I'm deeply sad this didn't find an audience, it was stunning and poignant and incredible. I wish more people had given this a chance. Damn. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 8:47pm

A shame about the short runs of these new shows.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 9:42pm

This is insane. It will have run just over a month. I feel terrible for all of the creatives involved. 

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 9:51pm

TaffyDavenport said: "https://twitter.com/JordanECooper_/status/1601367427409154048"

Jordan Cooper is trying to start a "save our show" campaign after everyone with tickets after December 18 have been emailed that their tickets have been canceled. 

I'm wondering with both Ain't No Mo and KPOP if the creative teams had announced we need people to buy a bunch of tickets right now or we'll have to close the show in a week, that strategy would have more impact? Once people are actually refunded, there's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. 

 

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 10:03pm

Jonathan Cohen said: "TaffyDavenport said: "https://twitter.com/JordanECooper_/status/1601367427409154048"

Jordan Cooper is trying to start a "save our show" campaign after everyone with tickets after December 18 have been emailed that their tickets have been canceled.

I'm wondering with both Ain't No Mo and KPOP if the creative teams had announced we need people to buy a bunch of tickets right now or we'll have to close the show in a week, that strategy would have more impact? Once people are actually refunded, there's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.”

Jordans post leads me to believe they weren’t consulted. Him saying they were “evicted” makes me think this came as a surprise and announced prior to trying to make a plan. 

 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 10:05pm

How on earth could this be a surprise? Do they not have access to the same information that we do, here? Their average ticket price is TWENTY ONE DOLLARS. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 10:18pm

Producers often phrase a closing announcement to the cast like "if we don't increase sales significantly we will close on X date." Rarely does a closing notice ever get rescinded.

"Eviction" is also an overstatement; I'm sure, like any closing, was a business decision made by the producer. A nudge from the theatre owner, yes, but I'm sure Shubert would let them run through Jan 1 if they had the funds to do so –– which they obviously don't, unless Lee Daniels wants to throw money into the sea.

[ElephantLoveMedley]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 10:33pm

I can’t help but to think there is a tad bit of karma here when you go around saying your play was written by the youngest playwright in Broadway history when that was a blatant lie.

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 10:40pm

Jordan Catalano said: "How on earth could this be a surprise? Do they not have access to the same information that we do, here? Their average ticket price is TWENTY ONE DOLLARS."

The average ticket price was $21.36  but on social media, Jordan Cooper was claiming the average ticket price to Ain't No Mo is $50. Either there's two different sets of criteria being used to determine the average, or there actually might be some disconnect with Cooper on what the business side looks like.   

Regardless of the specifics, for sure it's common sense that the worst selling show on Broadway is not going to be on Broadway for very long. 

 

 

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 10:47pm

Jonathan Cohen said:

"The average ticket price was$21.36 but on social media, Jordan Cooper was claiming the average ticket price to Ain't No Mo is $50. Either there's two different sets of criteria being used to determine the average, or there actually might be some disconnect with Cooper on what the business side looks like."

He also claims to be the youngest playwright in Broadway history, so...

 

[Kad]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 10:52pm

Updated On: 12/9/22 at 10:52 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 10:53pm

These “save our show” campaigns are… kind of pathetic. 

[sassylash3s]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 11:06pm

Jonathan Cohen said: "Jordan Catalano said: "How on earth could this be a surprise? Do they not have access to the same information that we do, here? Their average ticket price is TWENTY ONE DOLLARS."

The average ticket price was$21.36 but on social media, Jordan Cooper was claiming the average ticket price to Ain't No Mo is $50. Either there's two different sets of criteria being used to determine the average, or there actually might be some disconnect with Cooper on what the business side looks like.

Regardless of the specifics, for sure it's common sense that the worst selling show on Broadway is not going to be on Broadway for very long.


"

I think the average ticket price that's reported with the weekly grosses includes comp tickets, which naturally brings down the average price per ticket.  I suspect Cooper is referring to something like the average price that was paid for non-comp tickets.

[lily carver]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 11:21pm

I was there tonight and Mr. Cooper made an impassioned speech partly attacking Broadway for not being more open to plays like his.He kept saying Broadway has to change. I found the play thrilling but messy.  As a white person there was clearly a lot I was not going to get. I can't imagine in what world anyone could have seen this as a show that could survive on Broadway. Broadway shows need  tourists, suburbanites etc to buy tickets. I got my ticket at a steep discount, I am a dedicated theater goer but I could never afford Broadway ticket prices. I am very grateful I got to see it but not surprised it is closing

On a side note there were two African American women in front of me who literally spent the ENTIRE play on their cell phones. The worst I have ever seen in  a theater. It as incredibly distracting with the light.

 

 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/9/22 at 11:26pm

lily carver said: "I was there tonight and Mr. Cooper made an impassioned speech partly attacking Broadway for not being more open to plays like his.He kept saying Broadway has to change.”


Yes. Attack Broadway for people not wanting to see your show. That’s exactly what’s needed. Not promotion or trying to sell your show but attacks on the community thats actually putting your show on. Makes perfect sense.