What Show Will Announce Its Closing? — Page 4

Passing Strange-62.6% this week, 50.8% last week, this will not make it past this August
Cry Baby-64.4% this week, 55.7% last week, this will probably close in the fall

In that same thread, he said that WICKED would be open for over 20 more years....

and now he has Emma Zaks as his avatar.

I didn't realize he was being serious when he said that he is seeing a therapist. Makes sense now.

I think Xanadu will be around for awhile. it appeals to many people and plus it has been running longer than any of the shows that were nominated.
The shows that could possibly have a short life remaining on Broadway are:
Passing Strange
Cry Baby

The producers of PS are "waiting and seeing."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/theater/theaterspecial/17tony.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

My only fear with Xanadu is getting through July. Cheyenne was the undeniable star of the cast performance Sunday and he's going to be gone the entire month.

If the show can get through a month of potentially disappointed new customers expecting to see him and getting Curtis instead (no disrespect intended), I think it'll be OK.

Hopefully newcomers will just fall in love with the whole show, but after a performance like that....

Musical theater fan. You're totally mis-reading the grosses. It is not about percentage of the house, it's about average ticket price and the amount of money they gross for the week. If you give away all your tickets and everyone shows up, you would have 100% but no money. Cry Baby has been giving away hundreds of comps a week. Those tickets say $0.00 so they drive down the average sale price. So even though it posts numbers in the 50 and 60% range, it's probably only about 30 or 40% that actually purchase tickets. I expect this show to announce a closing this week, and for the show to be gone by early to mid july.

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A good friend of mine got 150 tickets (comped!) two weeks ago for a single performance.

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Whoever said In The Heights - they did a million dollars in advance sales since the Tonys. And Xanadu has had decent sales all along and it doesn't cost as much to run. Sadly I have to agree with A Catered Affair.

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A catered affair has a couple more months in it i think, its box office has been pretty steady especially for a show which was overlooked at the Tonys.

Xanadu i also think will pull through to around October
Legally Blonde i think will easily play out the year, especially since its grossing over half a million every week and selling more tickets than most Broadway shows.

Cry Baby and Passing Strange on the other hand i think will both be gone in the next few months

Oh and so will Spring Awakening

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Updated On: 6/17/08 at 11:52 AM

Spring Awakening has been dying a death for months, i have a feeling they will pull the plug and focus on the tour and the UK premiere

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Updated On: 5/3/09 at 08:18 PM

Oh well.

I think A CATERED AFFAIR, AVENUE Q, PASSING STRANGE, and XANADU wil be gone by December 31st.

And I also think MERMAID has a few good years left. It's in the top 5 consistently when it comes to sales.

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I'm not starting a new thread but Carly Jibson just posted a bulletin on myspace saying that the show is indeed closing on Sunday, June 22.

Per Carly:

"So, some of you may have heard, some of you may be hearing this for the first time. But I thought I would post a bulletin so that I could at least give you the info from the horses mouth.

After our very short run at the Marquis theatre, Cry Baby will have it's final performance on this Sunday June 22nd 2008. We got our notice tonight when we arrived at the theatre that our show is closing. We are very sad about the news, as you could imagine. We are all so grateful to have been apart of all of the Tony excitement, and have been blessed to have entertained all the people we have. This news breaks my heart on a very personal level being that I have been a part of the project from the very beginning, I feel more than blessed to have worked on this project and make "pepper" come to life. I will never forget this project or this AMAZING cast of talented actors, producers and creators I have had the priviledge to work with. This week will be very hard but I just want to say that we are going out with a bang!!! I have chosen this life style and this is a hazard of the trade. I have all the faith in the world that I will land on my feet and book something wonderful soon.

Thanks for all your love and support!!!

CRY BABY FOREVER B******!!!

Carly"

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Updated On: 6/18/08 at 03:02 AM