What's Next at the Music Box?
What's Next at the Music Box?
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#0What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:11pm
With producers announcing Cherry Jones as the female costar in Faith Healer at the Booth, Festen is getting pushed farther and farther into the sidelines for this season. Playbill just demoted it to TBA sometime in 2006.
My question is, wasn't Festen up next for the Music Box? And if it doesn't make it there, what's likely to take its place? I was thinking either Sutton Foster would move in and grab it or it would be used for a Broadway transfer of The Trip to Bountiful from Signature or The Little Dog Laughed from SecondStage, two great Off-Broadway shows.
Does anyone know more about this than I do?
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#1re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:13pmI wonder if Bill Kenwright has another show he can put in while Festen gets its act together.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#2re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:20pmFesten will open April 10.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#3re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:24pmIs there an actual confirmation of this anywhere?
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#4re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:26pmopen or begin previews, Smaxie?
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#5re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:27pmPreviews in March, but I don't know the start date. April 10 is the opening.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#6re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:29pmHow very Bill Kenwright that it's all so close to the wire.
#7re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:54pm*tear*...I really wanted to see Drowsy Chaperone at the Music Box.
QMAN03
Broadway Star Joined: 9/20/05
#8re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:56pmHow could Festen possibly open on April 10 if they don't even have a cast yet?
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#9re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:12pmAny more updates on this? It's now officially a week into February, and I just don't see how they could be putting this together by the beginning of April.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#10re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:19pm
BroadwayWorld has just posted the official press release. I was off by a day. It opens April 9.
Juliana Margulies, Michael Hayden, Larry Bryggman and Ali McGraw(!) will star.
Festen
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#11re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:23pmAli McGraw? That's absolute fricking GENIUS. And Smaxie, I can't believe you were a day out with your info. I shall never believe another word you say.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#12re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:23pm
Ali McGraw????????????????????
Wow. I'm speechless. Has she been floating in the same cryogenic chamber as Jill Clayburgh for the last few decades and did they both get released at the same time?
#13re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:30pmThe Music Box would have been PERFECT for Drowsy Chaperone, but I'm not sure they have enough wing space or fly space for this show (or for most modern musicals, for that matter). I know a few musical shows have played there, but usually it's straight plays. My own mother was in "Miss Lonelyhearts" there, back in the late '50s.
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Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#14re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:30pm
Ha. I love how this was posted like 2 seconds after I brought this topic back up.
Looks like all the theatres are officially booked now, although what will take over for Chita remains a mystery. The Schoenfeld is a little big for The Little Dog Laughed or The Trip to Bountiful. Perhaps good for Shining City?
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#15re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:32pmCan't a Festen thread be a Drowsy-free zone?
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#16re: What's Next at the Music Box?
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:38pm
Shining City is set to preview at the Biltmore in April.
The Schoenfeld is a pretty standard-sized house for plays and smaller musicals. Little Dog Laughed, Rabbit Hole and Trip To Bountiful would all be fine for the space.
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