What's next for the Plymouth after Taboo leaves?

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 2:51pm

Perhaps Sweet Charity can hurry up with the casting and workshop and move onto Brodaway already.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 4:18pm

In reply to this exactly how many broadway houses are going to be empty here soon waiting for a new show, and are there any waiting for a show to come right now?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 4:45pm

Fumigation!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 5:24pm

I'm hoping Jerry Springer: The Opera will be coming in. After hearing the CD, I really want to see it.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 8:08pm

SWEET CHARITY needs a much larger house. The Plymouth is quite small.

[gherbert]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 9:55pm

Jerry Springer: the Opera is coming next season I believe possibly at the Majestic Theatre (this was reported in Ken Mandelbaum's column a while back).

[bially082]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 9:59pm

But Phantom is there. It's not planning on closing is it?

[bially082]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 10:00pm

Besides, Jerry Springer isn't majestic enough to play the Majestic!

[catcher]

Posted: 1/14/04 at 11:29pm

Riedel wrote a whole thing about how Phantom was going to close this summer and JErry was coming in. However I don't think that is happenning. at all.

[Elphie]

Posted: 1/15/04 at 11:04am

voiceanth- Love the icon, its beautiful.
Jessica Simpson should be on Broadway.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/15/04 at 11:28am

bially082 - Have you listened to Jerry Springer yet? It's score blows Phantom out of the opera! "I Just Wanna Dance" is one of the best songs I've heard in a musical in a very long time. The orchestrations alone are a Tony shoo-in. I think the only reason I'm so enthused about the show is that I really expected to hate it and be repulsed by it. But believe me, it's not at all what you expect.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 1/15/04 at 3:10pm

There will be plenty of shows jockeying for the Plymouth. It is one of the most desireable houses on the street and always has been. A Raisin in the Sun comes to mind and so does the new play with Frank Langella and Ray Liotta, the title of which I have forgotten.

The Plymouth is way too small for a decent sized musical. That is one of the many reasons Jekyll and Hyde didn't pay off after 4 years there. Sweet Charity is too large of a show.

As for any show going into the Majestic post-Phantom, there will be a long reconstruction period needed once Phantom closes. Remember they needed about 7-8 months to get the place ready for Phantom in 86-87? This included tossing out 42nd Street and paying them a nice piece of change to move, breaking through the back wall of the Majestic to gain some extra footage from the Broadhurst (which had to be vacated as well, but I forget the show) and to reinforce the stage floor.

And one of the many conditions that Phantom was given to go to the Majestic was no stop clause to be evicted. They had begun talks for the Minskoff which has a larger backstage area and was empty.

Phantom is winding down, but don't count it out just yet.

[Missy37]

Posted: 1/15/04 at 7:29pm

I think Match is going in to the Plymouth