VANITIES Theater?
VANITIES Theater?
#1VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 10/31/08 at 7:54pm
After seeing a post on ATC, I was inspired to ask here if anyone knows what house VANITIES will be taking?
They start previews February 2nd and open February 26th, so a theater is surely booked.
I believe they're opening at a Shubert house, and the most recent rumor I'd heard was that they were taking The Booth after a limited run of DIVIDING THE ESTATE.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#2re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 10/31/08 at 7:59pmBooth or Lyceum.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#2re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 10/31/08 at 7:59pmPiraguaGuy2, the transfer of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty will be taking The Lyceum.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#3re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 10/31/08 at 8:01pmI think that the Booth would be a better fit for this show. I understand that the cast is small and it is a chamber musical. But, they would have a better chance of getting ticket sales from foot traffic. Something that Title Of Show couldn't have gotten at The Lyceum.
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#4re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 10/31/08 at 9:52pmwinston, I agree.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 11/1/08 at 09:52 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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#5re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:46amThis may be a dumb question, but when do tickets go onsale for this?
#6re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:52am
RE: Tickets
I would imagine sometime later this month or into December. Nothing's been announced yet, and I'm on this show like ... well, I'm very much anticipating this one!
Best,
- Mike 
#7re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 12:33pm
Tickets are tentatively scheduled to go on sale January 5th, I believe.
Since all these dates (like the first preview, opening night, start to ticket sales, etc.) are readily available with all the group sales information, I'm thinking the theater they're going into has to be currently housing something else that hasn't posted a closing notice to prevent them from having announced it by now.
It all points to them taking The Booth, since DIVIDING THE ESTATE is only selling tickets three months in advance (through January 10th) and would make much more economic sense as a limited run, even if it wasn't announced as one.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#9re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 12:38pmDividing The Estate is a limited run through January 4th. All of the advertising is clearly indicating that.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#10re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 1:31pmI mean, I'm all for original stuff on Broadway, but what makes them think this will do well? The last "small" musical to become a big Broadway hit was arguably Avenue Q, and that won the Tony..
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timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#11re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 1:38pmVANITIES is a musical version of a 1976 play by Jack Heifner. So, not "original" in the sense you refer to it as.
#12re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 1:47pmPiraguaGuy2, if it is indeed taking The Booth, it has a shot. That's a small enough house for it to work.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#13re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 1:56pmYes, but [tos] had the Lyceum, a VERY small theatre, and it still didn't work.
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#14re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:58pm[title of show] was also extremely less marketable.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#15re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 3:22pmI've heard from several different places that another specific show (not Vanities) has the Booth beginning in February. Could be rumors.
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#16re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 3:48pmInfiniteTheaterFrenzy, if you're thinking THE STORY OF MY LIFE, I've heard they're going into The Circle in the Square.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
being.jeremiah
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#17re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 5:31pm
If you look at the Group Sales Box Office website, Vanities is expected to occupy the Lyceum:
http://bestofbroadway.com/index.php?command=show&id=160
#18re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 5:34pmYup, VANITIES has the Lyceum. Wonder where REASONS TO BE PRETTY is going then.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#19re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 5:56pm
The producers are killing the show if it is at the Lyceum.
First, it is on the other side of Broadway and you can't even see it from far away. I also think it it too big to house Vanities.
If I were one of the people involved, I would want the Booth. It is in a great, desirable location and smaller.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#20re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 6:25pm
Producers don't always get their first choice of theatres. I'm sure they'd take the Booth or one of the other 45th Street playhouses, were it offered to them.
I really don't buy the east of Broadway argument... people find the shows, if they want to see them. Hamlet with Ralph Fiennes, Frankie and Johnny with Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci and Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington all fared nicely in the Belasco, for example. Patrick Stewart in Macbeth turned a profit at the Lyceum. The Blue Room with a naked Nicole Kidman was a hit at the Cort, and 39 Steps is thriving just fine there. But more often, those theatres are chosen as a last resort booking for dicey shows that end up failing, and the theatre gets blamed for it.
Of the east of Broadway theatres, the Lyceum is the most visible, since it is the closest to Broadway. I never thought it is in such a terrible location... it is surrounded by restaurants, including Planet Hollywood right next door, and Bond 45 across the street, and there is a lot of street traffic on that block. It DOES suffer from a very demure marquee, however. That little sign does not do its tenants any favors.
As far as size of the Lyceum, well, it has the smallest orchestra level of any theatre on Broadway. And it actually only has 140 more seats than the Booth, so it is not like they are selecting a 1,500 seat musical house.
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#21re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 6:26pm
Besides having heard from reliable sources as recently as this past week that reasons to be pretty has The Lyceum, you can also see that VANITIES is only selling group tickets for the orchestra and the mezzanine.
The Lyceum has a balcony. Why would that section of the house be completely eliminated from the price listing?
And if the show were taking The Lyceum, what's stopping them from having announced it by now? There is no other tenant there to prevent such an announcement.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 11/1/08 at 06:26 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#22re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 6:27pm
Somethingwicked, you have a point, but this is what I'm going by.
Lyceum Seating Chart
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#23re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 6:30pm
ray, I don't know if that company is very reliable.
They also have DANCIN' still on their upcoming schedule and "theater to be announced" for HAIR even though it's common knowledge by now that they've booked The Shubert.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#24re: VANITIES Theater?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 7:51pmbump.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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