Wedding Singer to Close 12/31/06- Page 5

Posted: 10/26/06 at 8:40am

WORST NEWS EVER!

[sweetconni]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 8:48am

The WS flyer said Constantine's last performance is Dec. 3rd.

[RentHead2]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 8:55am

I HATE HATE HATE the fact that they are closing this show. This show to me was much better than Jersey Boys and Wicked put together. This show has the hottest cast album I have ever heard and for a change the actors are actually nice at stage door. This is just a shame! The Wedding Singer really was the best time I have ever had seeing a broadway show. And I have seen plenty (both off and on broadway)!!!

Posted: 10/26/06 at 8:56am

"The Wedding Singer really was the best time I have ever had seeing a broadway show.

DITTO!!!!! BEST SHOW EVER!!! with the ABSOLUTE BEST CAST EVER!!!! i think the casting for this show was just perfect!!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 9:25am

It's all about the green.

Posted: 10/26/06 at 9:27am

LOVE IS WHAT I DO!!!
...:)

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 9:33am

>>>"Here comes Curtains! This is exiting news"<<<

Are you implying that the audience will be departing in droves?

[Lt. Cioffi]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 9:57am

I saw TWS in Sept. It wasn't near the best show I had ever seen. But I admit I had fun and I think everyone should see it if they can. The tickets are inexpensive and you'll have a fun night. I saw CURTAINS as well. I was wowwed by it. DHP is spectacular. But then everyone in the cast was excellent. It's a great show and it's my beloved KandernEbb (sort of). I also long for the days when Broadway had original musicals and plays. I tire of the constant barrage of revivals, movies turned musicals, and jukebox musicals. I'm not happy to see TWS close, but in truth, if CURTAINS is to follow, then I'm shamefully more pleased than I should be.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 10:38am

One of the reasons why the show didn't succeed, as you pointed out (not on purpose, of course) was that the tickets were so inexpensive. The average ticket price for the entire run was about $65. It costs so much to run, that a show can't ever recoup with a $65 top ticket price.

Just the economics of Broadway.

[IntoTheNight]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 10:48am

This was such an upbeat show; I don't think there was a time during it that my friend and I WEREN'T smiling when we saw it last week. But as many of you mentioned already, as with any other show business venture, it all boils down to economics, and along with the point of the low ticket price, I believe a few mentioned previously that turnout during the week was not as stellar as it was on the weekends.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 10:48am

" also long for the days when Broadway had original musicals and plays. I tire of the constant barrage of revivals, movies turned musicals, and jukebox musicals"

You are kidding me... right? Why are people griping about a show's source material? What the exact source material IS or WAS should not and does not matter. EVERY show has source material. In ANY time whatsoever it is hard to find any show that doesn't find its roots in something else....MY Fair Lady.. based on Pygmalion. Carousel.. based Lilliom.. Oklahoma.. based on Green Grow The Lillacs. King and I.. based on Anna and the King... Bye Bye Birdie.. based on Elvis. Cacaret.. based on I Am A Camera.Best Little Whorehouse.. based on, well, an actual whorehouse.

People saying that shows are less original today becase they are based on other things are idiots. Peoplw ho say that long for days when shows weren't based on things are lying hypocrites. There have ALWAYS been jukebox musicals.. why are we griping about them now? In the 'Golden Age of Broadway', MOST things were jukebox musicals and songs were interpolated in simply becase they were popular or showed off the star. The songbook is a type of source material, like anything else. Want to gripe about a jukebox musical? Gripe about the ones that are not done well. To this day I can't see why people griped about All Shook Up.. I thought it was a WONDERFUL show.. Stephen Oremus's arrangements were brilliant... not ONE of those songs were just thrown up there. All were reinvented and turned into something worthy... the book wasn't deep and the characters were not complicated, and they should not have been so. The style and writing perfectly echoed and payed homage to the films that Elvis used to make..... it all had the singular vision of putting his songs faithful on stage, even down to the writing style, but never ONCE did it just seem 'tossed in and tossed up'!
The WEdding Singer is another such example. Do I like the movie? not one bit. Do I like the stage production? Damn well. Are there things I would change an dother choices I would have made? Of course.. I always seem to deconstruct show. But it's brilliantly written and staged.. Every moment of the book and every moment of the score and every moment of the staging is meant as a tongue in cheek send up of something identifyable and unmistakeable 80s... it's an homage. And I felt that the show does a fine of staying faithful to an Adam Sandler property while still become a 'legit' Broadway property.

[snl89]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:12pm

whats really, REALLY depressing me is that there's REALLY not a chance of it being revived. ever. if it tours, it'll stay around a LITTLE while, but then after that'll it'll like.. fade into obscurity *tear* that is SO NOT FAIR!! its my drug!! what am I going to do without my drug!? I am going to be going through SUUUUCH bad withdrawls for SO long. I mean really, I know its silly to get this upset about a show, but it really DOES make me SO happy! and now that happyness is being taken away from me *goes to sulk... or, you know, listen to the recording*

Updated On: 10/26/06 at 12:12 PM

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:21pm

<<<<<"I blame Constantine. He is obviously not the draw some claimed that he was going to be.">>>>>
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If it wasn't for Constantine this show probably would have closed in September!



Updated On: 10/26/06 at 12:21 PM

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:23pm

How can you blame Constantine? The producers were the ones who hired him. Frankly I'm not surprised that his presence really didn't increase ticket sales. I just can't figure out why, if the show is continually losing money, that they're going to keep it open until the end of the year (unless someone wants a tax write-off to offset the profits on one of their other shows).

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:26pm

How funny! I bet my neighbor that Wedding Singer would announce it will close before The Producers for $20. I win!!!!!


"Wedding Singer" may still inspire prospective incarnations in Asia, while stock and amateur productions will be licensed through Music Theater Intl. Producers also are in discussions for a 2007 national tour."


Asia doing this show would be so funny! Like how they did Wicked. Also, a few months back, Playbill.com reported the tour has set dates in Minneanapolis in Summer 2007.

[IntoTheNight]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:27pm

If it wasn't for Constantine this show probably would have closed in September!

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And you know this...how? I would like to think this is just an obviously biased opinion, and not an actual fact. Hey, I like the guy too, but I also see the entire big picture. With or without him, there wasn't enough money to keep it going, unfortunately. And those figures don't lie.
Updated On: 10/26/06 at 12:27 PM

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:33pm

My opinion only. I think that was pretty obvious! Pretty argumentative of you don't you think? Do you have to monopolize every message board you are on Tootie?

Updated On: 10/26/06 at 12:33 PM

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:35pm

Can anyone tell me what time the box opens on Saturday? I'm hoping to do rush on Dec 16th.

I just don't want to stand in the freezing cold for a long time.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:37pm

SweetQ, I'm pretty sure the box office opens at 10am on Saturdays.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:39pm

So Dottie, if I want to be mostly sure I'll get rush tickets, what time should I get there do you think?

Also, how much are they? And, where are they located?

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:41pm

Oh, SweetQ, someone else might have to answer that question, as I have never rushed for this show. I'm not sure if this show has a set of the same people rushing on a consistent basis.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:43pm

Ok, Dottie, thanks!

I'm taking the train in from Trenton, NJ so I just want to know what time to get there.
I just want to make sure I'm there in time to actually get rush tickets.

[Lori2]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 12:48pm

WOW! I must go see this show before it closes! How sad its closing

[Parks]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 1:27pm

Last night when I read this, I immediately started looking at booking a trip to NYC before it closes. I've talked to my mom--and she said we can go. If that falls through, my friend's mom told me today that she's planning a trip to NYC for us (along with my friend, of course), and I immediate gave her a big hug. I'm VERY upset to hear the show is closing--and I'm working as hard as I can to make it to NYC before it closes. I must see it.

[FrontRowCenter2]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 1:41pm

While not one of the best shows to hit the boards, it was for the most part an audience pleaser. That being said, it should do extremely well on tour and actually turn a profit and more than likely will have an overall longer run than it had on Broadway.