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What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
#25What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 12:56am
Can you believe, in this past decade, only SEVEN plays have ran for longer than a year!! Can you name them????
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7) God of Carnage 2009-2010 452 performances
6) Golda's Balcony 2003-2005 493
5) Doubt 2005-2006 525
4) August Osage County 2007-2009 648
3) The 39 Steps 2008-2010 771
2) The Tale Of The Allergist's Wife 2000-2002 777
1) Proof 2000-2003 917
Updated On: 6/3/11 at 12:56 AM
#26What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 1:47amCatch Me won't run longer than a year, if that.
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#27What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 4:25pmOut of this season's plays, War Horse is the only one with a chance at a long run.
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#28What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/17/11 at 7:46am
Book of Mormon = Lock
Memphis = Getting close to being a lock
#29What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/17/11 at 7:57amMEMPHIS has played 726 performances (and 30 previews) as of today and I don't think they plan to close any time soon. I'd say it's as close to a lock as anything on Broadway today.
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#30What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/17/11 at 8:22amI doubt very much that War Horse will make it to 1000 performances -- but I beleive it will find a place in "longest running plays". I give it a full year to 18 months.
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#31What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/17/11 at 8:37am
Book of Mormon, definitely.
How to Succeed COULD if they get another big star after Daniel Radcliffe.
Memphis and The Addams Family will.
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#32What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/17/11 at 9:14amAddams Family won't be around much longer, I expect a closing notice at the end of the summer. How to Succceed won't make it either. A year is about the average life expectancy for a revival. Yes, certainly there are exceptions, but this won't be one of them -- it's not like its selling out without discounts. I expect their numbers will fall dramatically once the summer tourists go home. (I really liked H2S, and am really surprised that it wasn't selling better -- after all, it's on TKTS nearly every day.)
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#33What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/17/11 at 10:23am
Yeah, I'd be shocked if THE ADDAMS FAMILY was still around by, say, the end of September--and since it's only at about 550 performances, it won't break 1000.
Even if H2S recasts, it won't break 1000 performances. The last revival only made it to 548.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 7/17/11 at 10:23 AM
#34What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/18/11 at 3:52pm
Speak of the Devil, ROCK OF AGES just hit 1000!
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Coverage-ROCK-OF-AGES-Celebrates-1000-Performances-on-Broadway-20110718
#35What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/18/11 at 3:54pmI really, really don't understand the appeal of Rock of Ages.
#36What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/18/11 at 4:39pmThat's ok. I didn't understand the appeal of Spring Awakening. It happens.
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#37What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/18/11 at 4:45pm
Whatever I honestly don't care. You are always right, every one else is wrong. My opinion is different, but oh wait you are the second incarnation of Jesus so you must be right.
You're calling other posters rude but you come out with a post like this? Huh.
Anyway, it's not really debatable. If you want to count previews you can do so to your heart's content. But, when the producers roll out that "Happy 1000th Performance" cake for the cast that number will not include previews. The official count starts at opening night.
I really, really don't understand the appeal of Rock of Ages.
It was cute and I'm glad I saw it. But I don't think I'll be returning.
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#38What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/18/11 at 5:19pm
"That's ok. I didn't understand the appeal of Spring Awakening. It happens."
I also don't understand the appeal of Spring Awakening - saw it and thought that the lack of character development was dreadful.
"It was cute and I'm glad I saw it. But I don't think I'll be returning."
I've been thinking about seeing it for a little while now (mostly because my mom has been asking me to go with her). But there is something about the crowds outside of the theatre before the show/the stage door crowds that frighten me a bit, haha. Maybe someday!
#39What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/18/11 at 6:10pm
The whole thing about ROA is 1000 on BROADWAY
Per ibdb, it hasn't as of yet.
ROA Oops!
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#40What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/19/11 at 12:51am
I've been thinking about seeing it for a little while now (mostly because my mom has been asking me to go with her). But there is something about the crowds outside of the theatre before the show/the stage door crowds that frighten me a bit, haha. Maybe someday!
I went on a Monday evening and I had no issues with rowdy audience members or a massive crowd outside the theatre. The friend I went with had seen it multiple times said that Monday is the best time to go if you want to avoid the "rock concert" feel.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#41What current shows do you think will pass 1000 performances?
Posted: 7/19/11 at 1:35am^ Ah, awesome. Thanks for the info! I'll look into it when I bring her down for Hair and Rent.
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