When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#0When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 8:52pm
As we all know all broadway shows have to end sooner or later! So when do you think Phantom will close?
I give it about 5 years at the most!
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Updated On: 7/4/06 at 08:52 PM
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#1re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 8:57pmI'll say 5 years, too.
colleen_lee
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#2re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 8:59pmI don't see Phantom closing in the near future. It's been open over 15 years and attendance is still sitting in the high 90s. The show draws a lot of repeat visitors and continues to be the "go-to" show for tourists in NYC.
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#3re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 9:00pmAs long as it keeps making money and keeps on bringing people in, it will run and run and run. I think it has a few good years left in it. I agree that 5 is a pretty good number.
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blaxx
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#5re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 9:05pm
I would say more than five, unless they want to pull another "Les
Miz" with it, and take it away just to bring it back for a limited run, which might suspiciously turn into an open ended run...
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#6re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 9:13pm
Ask anyone who knows me, and I said I'd die when LES MIZ closed. I'm still here. Since I survived it's closing and am around to see the revival, I can look upon the Music of the Night being over with a little less dread 
That said, I say it'll be there for about 5 more years, maybe longer.
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Mr Roxy
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#7re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 9:45pm
When people stop going
The revival of Lestat can than come in
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#8re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 10:11pm2015
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NathanLaneStalker
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#9re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 10:14pm
For some reason I doubt it will run another 9 years!
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#10re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 10:20pm
As soon as it becomes a Vegas lounge act.
Oh...
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#11re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 10:26pmMr. Roxy's first statement holds true for all shows...it's sort of sadistic to try to predict...whenever it happens, it'll happen.
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#12re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 10:50pmI really think Phantom will reach 10,000 performances.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Marguerite Chauvelin
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#13re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 10:50pmUntil the chandelier REALLY falls one night and burns the theater down. Muahahahahaha!
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Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
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#14re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/4/06 at 10:53pm
The revival of "Lestat"? Will that be around the same time as the "Dance of the Vampires" or "All Shook Up" or "Good Vibrations" or "Ring of Fire" or "Hot Feet" revivals?
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RentBoy86
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#15re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 1:11amWell, with ALW's recent failures, I wouldn't be suprised if he milks the HELL out of this show. Granted he's making TONS of money on regional rights, etc, but this is really his only money making show that's still running. I figured they'd run it long enough to make sure it stays as "the longest running" show for a while. When did CATS close? Was it's attendence going down? Or did it just kind of close out of the blue?
#16re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 1:15am
Sometime during the Chelsea Clinton presidency....
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Updated On: 7/5/06 at 01:15 AM
#17re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 1:20am
Marguerite, that made me laugh so very, very hard.
Thank you.
Hehehehee.
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#18re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 2:25ami really think they need to close it and completely revamp it. it's so tired. it needs to freshen up. plus it's way too "touristy". the constant flash photography is rediculous.
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Stphen1187
Chorus Member Joined: 7/1/06
#19re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 2:32amTo respond to the 'Cats' question, I believe the show closed in September of 2000 after nearly 18 years at the Winter Garden. I'm sure attendance wasn't at/near full capacity for the full duration of its run, but like 'Phantom,' 'Cats' is one of those shows that has acquired a following of fans that return time and again to see the show. 'Phantom' especially appeals to NYC tourists (I'm thinking specifically of a billboard I've seen in Times Square that reads "remember your first time")...it's a show that a generation of tourists return to each time they visit the city. I don't see it closing any time in the near future.
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#20re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 3:52amPOTO couldn't close soon enough! PLEASE CLOSE!!!
So what...I sing
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#21re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 4:11amEM I feel the same way about CHICAGO
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#22re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 4:13amso what.... I sing: CHICAGO needs to burn, BURN!!!
#23re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 4:15amHopefully before it reaches a point where it will become almost hopeless for another show to pass it's performance record in the future. I'd hate for ALW to have the top 2 shows for all time. How depressing.
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#24re: When do you think Phantom will close on b'way?
Posted: 7/5/06 at 7:58amAfter seeing this show 4 times, this is my evaluation of Phantom. Phantom is a show that is probably one of the many spectacles and proven hits on Broadway with all types of people. One major factor in Phantom's success has been the timing. The movie came out, more people came back. The Vegas production, which people will want to go see. Also the rotation of the Phantoms. This is particularly ingenius on the part of Hal Prince in that whenever it is believed the show is starting to fall, they get a new Phantom or bring back an old favorite. Phantom of the Opera may forever be the best Broadway musical ever when people start to realize the true impact that this marvelous show brought to the Broadway stage. Without Phantom, there'd be no spectacle like Wicked. To quote another Cameron Mackintosh/Andrew LLoyd Webber musical Phantom has "Taught the world new ways to dream."
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