WHAT IS ON THE TOWN DOING?- Page 2

[ivandixon2]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 3:26pm

A Christmas Carol (non-musical) with four very strong leads.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 3:29pm

Oooo who?? Tell me pleaseee

[ivandixon2]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 3:37pm

If I could do that, I would have included the names. I can say that the charactor roles for the name talent are Scrooge, Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Bob Cratchit.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 3:41pm

Stage actors or celebs? Can u just name one of them? Pleaseee :)

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 3:52pm

"You seriously have nothing better to do at 3:30am, Pintobean?"

 Lol it's summer I go to bed at 4 and wake up at 12 :)))))

plus there was no one to talk to online anymore :))

[Bilbo3]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 3:58pm

Go away, Pinto. Go be butthurt about OTT somewhere else. 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:18pm

I never understood all the personal nastiness between posters here. After more than a decade posting, I feel it. PhillyPinto, you make this board a substantially worse place. You bring every conversation down into dregs of prodigious stupidity to the point where blocking you would only make half the threads incoherent. Please begin to consider what you are saying before you post.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:25pm

Whaaaaat??? How have I ruined this thread? Without me this thread wouldn't even exist. We were having a genuine conversation about theatre until YOU came along and ruined it. People answered me seriously.  You come out of no where to complain about me so clearly you are just jelousssss. 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:49pm

No, this was just an obnoxious and pointless thread screaming on the main page in all caps. It was impossible to ruin. 

Updated On: 7/3/15 at 04:49 PM

[HogansHero]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:53pm

"The producers want to stay open for close to a year to help with future tour bookings. It will play thru September and then close."

Lovely. But it still makes no economic (or, for that matter, strategic) sense whatsoever. Losing an million or two dollars before Labor Day is not likely to engender interest. 

I'm also curious what this show is going to look like on the road: is it going to be the same money pit it is on Broadway, or is it going to be a stripped down version?

"At least honeymoon had things ahead of them. On the town has nothingggg left"

What do you mean?

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:54pm

What is your source on this, Dixon? I've heard of ANOTHER holiday show. Weird. 

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 5:43pm

I mean that at least Honeymoon in Vegas had the possibility of being nominated for Best Musical which could have sparked interest. On the Town is way beyond that, and they are still not making their nut.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 5:45pm

I trust dixon.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 5:50pm

Honeymoon wasn't nominated for anything, while on the town had 4 nominations. They may not have won them, but they still at least got recognized for be an achievement in theatre. They still got more recognition than hmiv 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 5:53pm

On The Town's reviews, grosses, and awards recognition have generally been far better than Honeymoon's. A perfectly charming but barely comparable show.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 6:13pm

There are some serious timeline issues in the recent replies in this thread. 

1. Honeymoon closed several weeks before the Tony noms so it is hard to see how what it had to look forward to plays into the equation.

2. OTT's Tony noms are, at this point, a non-sequitur, because no Tony bump materialized. The show lost a six figure amount last week, a week in which it should have soared. if it ever was going to. 

These shows are both total flops that ran/are running beyond their sell-by dates. That one may or may not be better, or that one was more recognized, is meaningless. 

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 6:27pm

Drew and Scary...you two make quite a few valid points in your posts.  If anything, I must admire the producers' resolve and tenacity to promote their show.  The cast also seem willing to take part in any endeavor to publicize OTT.  Whatever the future holds for OTT, they've tried everthing possible to make it successful.  

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 6:39pm

Dear Pintobean,

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 7:03pm

lol no they read my posts for information.

We can't really compare Honeymoon with On the Town since Honeymoon in Vegas didn't make it until tony noms, but if it did, they would have gotten a best musical nomination

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 7:30pm

"We can't really compare Honeymoon with On the Town since Honeymoon in Vegas didn't make it until tony noms, but if it did, they would have gotten a best musical nomination"

You're not a Tony voter. You don't know that. Closing did nothing to weaken their Tony leverage. You need to calm down with Honeymoon. It's over. It'll be a lovely dinner theatre show for years to come, and that's it. Also, you were the one comparing them. But okay, babe, keep trying to cover your idiotic tracks.

Updated On: 7/3/15 at 07:30 PM

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 7:34pm

Saaaaay what??? Then how come everybody said because it closed, it slimmed its chances at being nominated considerably? Clearly it DID in fact lose a lot of its leverage  

[HorseTears]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 7:35pm

"What are you saying horsetears??? 

"

You seriously cannot comprehend the content of my response? Come on. Truth. How old are you?

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 7:41pm

"Then how come everybody said because it closed, it slimmed its chances at being nominated considerably?"

I don't know? Is everybody on this board a Tony voter? Why did everybody say it was a good show to begin with? Beats me, kid.

 

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 7:49pm

lmfaoooo

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/3/15 at 7:51pm

I love it when actual AWFUL trolls like Bilbo tell other people to go away. It makes me happy to know that he's still be as stupid as he's always been.