Why did Jane Eyer close so soon?

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:04pm

So, I have tried to find an answer but I am having trouble looking in all the posts. What happened to this show? I really love the score and the cast was great! What happened to it? It is much better than lots of the things currently treading the boards!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:04pm

I don't think the title "Jane Eyre" excites the average NYC tourist.

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:05pm

Yeah, but it is a story many know

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:06pm

Well true, but I just think gloom and doom is hard to sell. Nothing to do with the quality of the work, but titles like that have been a hard sell for a while on Broadway.

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:09pm

This is true but it dose have a great story of love pulling through no matter what. Could it have been the religious aspect that turned people away?

Updated On: 8/21/05 at 05:09 PM

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:12pm

I know this doesn't really answer your question, but I'm glad there's another person who loves this musical!

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:13pm

Me too! Is your icon from the show?

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:16pm

Yes! I loves me some James Barbour, lol. <33

[jasonf]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:16pm

I love it too -- I think "As Good As You" is as good a song as has been written in the past ten years on Broadway. I think part of the problem was that when I came out of the show, and I'm not kidding, my first comment was "Wow, did you see that lighting design???" The lights were incredible -- while the lighting people deserve credit, that's not the first thing you should be noticing...

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:30pm

Hah, yeah, that's true. I've never seen the show, howver, but I recall reading that it's very long (3 hours, I think?) and dragged on at some parts.

[Alix7272]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:31pm

i loved this show and still listen to the recording. i actually used it in my english class when we read the book. the beginning of the song where old and young jane are singing together is beautiful.

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:36pm

"The Proposal" gets a bit corny, but I do love James Barbour's voice at the end of the song. It's intense and so strong!

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:38pm

I read the book this summer, it was a little dragged on at points, but the story is great. I have enver heard any of the score from the musical.

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:46pm

I would say buy it. It is great! And btw iRuvPrinceton...I love me some James Barbour too!

[QuiteSo]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:51pm

James is so very, very sexy...he definitely was in Jane Eyre, too. The show was good, but it opened the same season as The Producers....that and it was yet another melodramatic pop opera type of thing. The ticket sales were bad, and without Tony wins, it had to close. It's very cute - and I love the end of The Proposal, but hate the beginning of it.

Nothing beats James Barbour in drag speaking in falsetto, though.

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:55pm

That is right I forgot about that. Do you remember how Alanis Morresett(sp?) was the one that paid the bills to keep it open a little longer! I don't like her but she gets a gold sticker from me for that one!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:57pm

but titles like that have been a hard sell for a while on Broadway (gloom and doom)

POTO
Le Miz
Ms. Saigon


hmmm, not a hard sell at all.

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:58pm

Good point Elphaba!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:58pm

Mixed reviews & lousy business. It did not appeal to tourists ( no falling chandeliers or helicopters etc)

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:01pm

Yeah, I guess it had the problem of the cast and not the set being the main focus

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:01pm

"Nothing beats James Barbour in drag speaking in falsetto, though."

Amen!

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:02pm

iRuvPrinceton I think we should be friends! :)

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:04pm

We should, we should!! ^_^

By the by, here's a link that might interest y'all http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=505836 I was excited when I first found it!

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:23pm

Wonderful!!! Thnak you!

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:30pm

No problem!!