What's next for the St. James ?

CoffeeBreak said: "With Queen Of Versailles irreversibly flopping hard, what's next for the St. James comespring?"

Evita, probably. And for anyone saying they won’t shut down a NYC street to accommodate onlookers… it likely depends on the ticket price, which I imagine will be astronomical in comparison to Nicole’s Sunset.

PipingHotPiccolo said: "Maybe QOV will flop, maybe its really has vapid as so many here have said, but the hostility towards it--the eagerness for it to flop--is unseemly. To start a whole new thread about who will replace a show less than a week into its previews? Are you all this nasty in real life?"

I don’t think this post is at all a celebration of a show’s lack of feasibility. To me, it reads as speculation of the inevitable: another show will go into this theatre, and it seems likely that it’ll be sooner rather than later

No disrespect intended toward the cast and crew of QoV. If it completely turns it around and becomes a smash hit, good for them!


Ironically, I don’t recall anyone talking smack about Real Women Have Curves even when it was obvious it was going to have a short run… almost like more relatable and better constructed shows don’t receive the same animosity when the obvious is on the horizon. I wonder why this show hits different… (sarcasm)

THDavis said: "
Ironically, I don’t recall anyone talking smack about Real Women Have Curves even when it was obvious it was going to have a short run… almost like more relatable and better constructed shows don’t receive the same animosity when the obvious is on the horizon. I wonder why this show hits different… (sarcasm)"

No idea what you mean by "ironically" here since youre highlighting the very point I am making. No one posted about who was taking over the Jones theater while RWHC was *in previews* because it would have been nasty to the point of stupid. I am not saying I think QOV will be a success, or that its a good show--i know no more than anyone else--but we dont even know how the box office is doing yet, so everything being snickered about here is pure speculation. It may be accurate but its a real bad look.

I'm really curious to see the grosses for this show next week. It's entirely possible that the only new four musicals opening this fall will be saved by the lack of competition. 2 big revivals and only 2 new original musicals. I'm not seeing QoV, but I'm certain a lot of people, tourists and tri-borough locals will due to lack of anything else to see. I know there are also Mamma Mia and Beetlejuice, but these are tour shows and have been on Broadway not too long ago.

PipingHotPiccolo said: "No idea what you mean by "ironically" here since youre highlighting the very point I am making. No one posted about who was taking over the Jones theater while RWHC was *in previews* because it would have been nasty to the point of stupid. I am not saying I think QOV will be a success, or that its a good show--i know no more than anyone else--but we dont even know how the box office is doing yet, so everything being snickered about here is pure speculation. It may be accurate but it’s a real bad look."

Thank you for correcting my semantics, My Liege. Petty arguments about grammar, even when correct, have gotten us so far in modern times…

Updated On: 10/11/25 at 08:44 PM

I would hope you would, just like everyone else who gave their honest review in the previews thread. Is this thread unnecessary? Sure, all threads are. But many posters have created a "What's next?" thread here for many years. I don't interact a lot with CoffeeBreak, but it seems their intention was not based in pettiness or nastiness, but rather curiosity and discussion. You are the only poster taking offense.

I absolutely hear you, Jarethan. 100% agreed.

Grease or Hairspray. Just let me dream.

BOM said: "Will Arden be able to recover from two flops in one season?"

If you’re inferring that THE LOST BOYS is going to be a flop even before the first preview, your premise is already on shaky ground.

Michael Arden is one of the best and most inventive up and coming directors of this century, with four nominations and two Tonys for directing in the last 10 years. Every director will have their flops (look at Hal Prince for most of the 1980s). Sometimes even the best of directors can’t make a sculpture from a pile of s#!t.

Even if both shows underperform, I’m sure Arden will remain a hot sought after director for some time.

Kad said: "Sutton Ross said: "No idea what you mean by "ironically" here since youre highlighting the very point I am making. No one posted about who was taking over the Jones theater while RWHC was *in previews* because it would have been nasty to the point of stupid. I am not saying I think QOV will be a success, or that its a good show--i know no more than anyone else--but we dont even know how the box office is doing yet, so everything being snickered about here is pure speculation. It may be accurate but its a real bad look."

okay.

no one discuss anything on the discussion board folks.

Haha, right? This person hasn't seen the show obviously but is super mad/sad/pressed/judgmentalthat people are discussing the show and how bad it is? On a message board called Broadway World? Almost as pathetic and atrocious as his grammar, even though he pretends he's a "lawyer." LOLZ."

Seen Audra in any hotel lobbies lately, Sutton? LOLZ."

You don't expect Sutton to practice what they preach? They are held to a different standard here than the rest of us.