What closed on the first and second weekend of January 2010?

[sundaymorning6am]

Posted: 9/17/10 at 1:09pm

I'm having trouble remembering, and this happens every year too...

What shuttered on January 3rd/10th of 2010?

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 9/17/10 at 1:17pm

January 3:
Shrek
Superior Donuts
White Christmas

January 10:
The 39 Steps
Burn the Floor
Ragtime
In the Next Room

January 17:
Wishful Drinking
Finian's Rainbow

January 24:
Bye Bye Birdie

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 9/17/10 at 1:47pm

The question should of been What Closed in January 2009? Now that was a massacre.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 9/17/10 at 1:56pm

Closing on January 4, 2009 were:
13
Boeing-Boeing
Dividing the Estate (Limited Run)
Grease
Hairspray
Liza's at the Palace (Limited Run)
Slava's Snowshow (Limited Run)
White Christmas (Limited Run)
Young Frankenstein

Then on January 11:
All My Sons (Limited Run)
Gypsy
Spamalot

And on January 18:
Spring Awakening

It should be noted though that 10 of the 13 theatres vacated in January were booked by new shows before the end of the season.

[sundaymorning6am]

Posted: 9/17/10 at 1:57pm

Ah yes, '09 was AWFUL. Thanks, guys! My memory is awful.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 9/17/10 at 2:21pm

January 2009 was depressing.

[newintown]

Posted: 9/17/10 at 2:24pm

I don't understand - it sounds like you're talking about a show closing as though it were a tragedy.

Imagine if every room at the Met Museum held a permanent, unchanging collection. Imagine if ABT had one evening of dances they showed over and over and over, or the NY Phil only played Mahler's 4th at each concert, or the Met Opera only showed La Traviata.

Shows close. New shows open. That's always been the state of every art, and it's nothing to mourn.

[nexttotheheights]

Posted: 9/17/10 at 3:03pm

^it's just that when more than one show closes at a time it is less special.