When will Guys and Dolls close?

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 7:40pm

I know I was reading something about it possibly closing when Lauren Graham's contract runs up in October. With horrible numbers, will it close even sooner?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 8:42pm

Someone wrote that here. Who of us could possibly know?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 8:42pm

It'll probably struggle through the summer tourist season.

Updated On: 5/24/09 at 08:42 PM

[jagfkb]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 8:55pm

I give it til October, after the September slump

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 9:46pm

I know I was reading something about it possibly closing when Lauren Graham's contract runs up in October...

Hmmm I wonder where you read that. Oh look....YOU posted it:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&thread=997092#3837580

GUYS AND DOLLS will close when the producers decide it it costing more to keep open than it is bringing in. Until that announcement is made, why keep raising the question and trying to start rumours.

Updated On: 5/24/09 at 09:46 PM

[steven22]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 10:03pm

soon (it sucked when I saw it)

[vlegra]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 10:10pm

I give it a couple weeks after the Tony Awards

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 10:15pm

After everyone realizes Hair is the best show of the season they will skip Guys and Dolls and go straight to Hair.


That won't happen really but I sure hope. They will suffer from their lack of Tony winning.

[willep]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 11:18pm

I saw it this weekend and i really enjoyed it! There were very, very few empty seats (at least in the orchestra, didn't see the mezzanine). The audience really seemed to be having a good time, and I overheard no complaints during intermission or afterward, everybody had only good things to say.

[lull89]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 11:23pm

When I saw it the audience went nuts at the end and loved it (which I was a bit mystified by), so I think it's not getting horrible word of mouth except for places like the boards and the critics. I wouldn't be surprised if it had a healthy run and recouped. It's unlikely, but it could happen.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 9:57am

I think that the name alone will carry the show straight through the summer. It might end up a casualty of the likely Labor Day closing barrage, when shows assess the advances for September-mid November and realize that continuing is probably not worth the effort.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 9:58am

HEY GUYS!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY YOU WANT A SHOW TO CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 10:37am

The same is true of WSS. It doesn't REALLY matter if it's good...folks are going to see because of what it is. Which saddens me.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 10:37am

I've been saying that I wanted PHANTOM OF THE OUTHOUSE to close since the week it opened.

My pleas obviously haven't been heard by the right people, though.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 10:44am

I willingly join you on that parade, Dolly!

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 11:41am

I'm not in a rush for any shows to close. WAITING FOR GODOT was the final play of the 2009 season with 9 TO 5 the final musical. Nothing new will open on Broadway until October. (No summer openings are scheduled, aside from the Encores limited run of THE WIZ.)

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 11:49am

FINIAN'S RAINBOW is set to open at the St. James in late summer.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 11:57am

I feel like it's kinda unfair to say that audiences will flock to HAIR instead of GUYS AND DOLLS. G&D is a much more family-oriented show...you can't exactly take the entire family (unless of course they're old enough) to HAIR. The same audiences going to G&D won't go see HAIR, they're probably more likely to see WEST SIDE. Not to say HAIR won't do well financially, I think it will.

I think we're going to experience deja vu this winter with a crapload of shows closing up shop...I don't know if it will be as bad as last year but the winter usually weeds out a bunch of shows and with the recession not seeming to get much better, I think it'll be another dreary few months on Broadway. And G&D could easily be part of that group...we'll see.
Updated On: 5/25/09 at 11:57 AM

[BrianS]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 12:04pm

What a tacky thread to start. Of course you're allowed to ask, but what's the point?

And steven22, I wasn't a fan of the show either, but you're a total tool to be wishing so many people out of work right now.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 12:07pm

GUys and Dolls plays to capacity audiences, I just don't know what its nut is. If it's making pas its nut, there is no reason for it to close.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 12:08pm

No, it plays to around 70%, and isn't making its nut.

Cartagena, I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 12:32pm

It's never cool to wish/hope a show closes. The cast and staff, plus the theatre employees depend on a show's continued existence. I get the sense that the original poster gets some sort of satisfaction or makes himself feel important to even start the thread in the first place. Good luck to "Guys and Dolls" (and to other shows which need a boost)! from RC in Austin, Texas

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 12:43pm

Does anyione know what the weekly nut for G&D is? I haven't seen anything in Variety that indiactes, but these days a big musical - large cast, crew, orchestra - can run $650-700 K. And it hasn't been above that figure very often.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 12:49pm

It was sold out yesterday, I looked for tickets.


I figured I would give it a try...

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/25/09 at 12:54pm

Has FINIAN'S RAINBOW set an opening date yet? It is not listed on IBDB and Playbill only says it will open "after Labour Day."

IBDB says the first shows of teh new season will be:

After Miss Julie Oct 2, 2009 American Airlines
Wishful Drinking Oct 4, 2009 Studio 54
The Royal Family Oct 8, 2009 Samuel J. Friedman
Bye Bye Birdie Oct 15, 2009 Henry Miller's Theatre