WAR WHORSE To Close 1/6/13
#2
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
#4
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:35pm
Unfortunately 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.
#5
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!
STAGE TUBE: Opening Night Highlights - THE KING AND I at The Muny!
Updated On: 9/4/12 at 07:40 PM
#6
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:42pm
Jesus, you're like the greedy servants in "A Christmas Carol" who pull the bed curtains off before the body is cold.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#7
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:44pm
As 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.
#8
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:52pm
BWW vultures picking the meat from the carcass before it has actually died.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 9/4/12 at 07:52 PM
#9
Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:55pm
Of 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.
#10
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
Well of course you don't want to wait for it to die. Nobody wants to eat rotting meat
#11
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:05pm
I 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.
#12
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:22pm
Douglas Carter Beane's new play THE NANCE with Nathan Lane will be at The Beaumont in the spring, directed by Jack O'Brien.
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.
Updated On: 9/4/12 at 08:22 PM
#13
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:24pm
Are 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.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#14
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:38pm
Telecharge had probably not yet been informed.
#15
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:46pm
You'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.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#16
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:58pm
The 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.
#17
Posted: 9/4/12 at 8:59pm
At 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.
#18
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:05pm
I'm surprised it held up this long.... Hoping to catch the tour though just to check it out.
#19
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:08pm
Finally got to see it this past Saturday as it is on TDF.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#20
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!
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#21
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:25pm
^ agree though I thought it was cool.,it was a bit long at 2:40
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#22
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:35pm
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...
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#23
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:53pm
Nathan 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.
#24
Posted: 9/4/12 at 10:40pm
Such a brillant show. It'll still do very well on tour & overseas.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#25
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/
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/
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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