WAR WHORSE To Close 1/6/13
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#2WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:19pm
Jordan beat me when it came to creating a thread for this topic. Like I said the show had a very good run. I do wonder if the rumored 'The King and I' revival playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre is true.
Updated On: 9/4/12 at 07:19 PM
jeffmiele
Broadway Star Joined: 11/6/07
#4WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:35pmUnfortunately the revival can't happen until at least the spring as long as Kelli O'Hara is still attached.. She is doing a show at Playwright Horizons.. Personally I'd rather see it sooner than wait to see it with her.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#5WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:40pm
If O'Hara is unavailable then I'd like to see Laura Michelle Kelly play Anna. She sounds and looks amazing in the Muny production from last month.
STAGE TUBE: Opening Night Highlights - THE KING AND I at The Muny!
Updated On: 9/4/12 at 07:40 PM
#6WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:42pmJesus, you're like the greedy servants in "A Christmas Carol" who pull the bed curtains off before the body is cold.
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#7WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:44pmAs soon as a show opens we speculate when it will close, as soon as it announces closing we speculate what will replace it. Until that show opens and the cycle begins again.
#8WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:52pm
BWW vultures picking the meat from the carcass before it has actually died.
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jeffmiele
Broadway Star Joined: 11/6/07
#9WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:55pmOf course, it's part of the fun of theater going. Out with the old and in with the new. I love WAR HORSE and mean no disrespect to it and I hope those who wanted to see it got to.. But now we get to see something totally new or a new production of something else, it's exciting and fun to speculate about what's coming in.. Especially when it comes to that gorgeous theater.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#10WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:05pm
"BWW vultures picking the meat from the carcass before it has actually died."
Well of course you don't want to wait for it to die. Nobody wants to eat rotting meat
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#11WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:05pmI spoke to someone who works at Lincoln Center who goes out to public schools and teaches lessons connected to the show currently playing at the theater and then the class goes and sees the show. Apparently she was told to put together a lesson based around The King and I.
#12WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:22pmDouglas Carter Beane's new play THE NANCE with Nathan Lane will be at The Beaumont in the spring, directed by Jack O'Brien.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#13WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:24pmAre we sure about this, BWW? I had tickets for 1/19...called telecharge to see about switching dates. They say it's not true. They are selling through 1/26.
#14WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:38pmTelecharge had probably not yet been informed.
#15WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:46pmYou'd think they'd be the first people they'd tell. Is there usually much of a lag in these things? There are some good seats available on another day. I should probably just snatch them up and take the refund for the others rather than trying to exchange them.
#16WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:58pmThe lag is no more than a day usually. The press release went out less than two hours ago, so it's not that surprising that the news hasn't filtered all the way down to the phone operators.
#17WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:59pmAt least this went out like a true Kentucky Derby winner, not some mange thing that fell at the first fence and ends up being shot. Not many plays perform over 500 times on Broadway.
tphiliboy152
Featured Actor Joined: 6/14/12
#18WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:05pmI'm surprised it held up this long.... Hoping to catch the tour though just to check it out.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#19WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:08pmFinally got to see it this past Saturday as it is on TDF.
#20WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:19pm
What did you think? I thought if they cut 20 inutes from it they would have had one kick ass show!
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#21WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:25pm^ agree though I thought it was cool.,it was a bit long at 2:40
#22WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:35pmAre you certain THE NANCE is coming in? Seems like an odd choice of venue for a play like that. Sure, you have a subscriber base, but Nathan Lane is a big enough name to not need to rely on season ticketholders to get a sales boost...
--Aristotle
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#23WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:53pmNathan Lane in a MUSICAL is a bigger seller than Nathan Lane in a play. Butley and November hardly did gangbuster business. But sales for Addams Family dropped during his vacations.
#24WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 10:40pmSuch a brillant show. It'll still do very well on tour & overseas.
#25WAR HORSE To Close 1/6/13
Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:18am
"Are you certain THE NANCE is coming in? Seems like an odd choice of venue for a play like that. Sure, you have a subscriber base, but Nathan Lane is a big enough name to not need to rely on season ticketholders to get a sales boost."
Lincoln Center doing the play in the spring has been public knowledge for some time, so I'm not sure where your comments about relying on subscribers for a show with Nathan Lane are coming from. Even so, how is The Beaumont an "odd choice of venue for a play like that"?
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/the-nance-looking-likely-as-nathan-lanes-return-to-broadway/
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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