Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
#0Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Posted: 3/21/06 at 1:07amIt makes no sense to me since, for $1.50 you can hop a PATH train and see the NY production. I can sort of understand why they would do MILLIE, KING & I, and CATS but CHICAGO has me scratching my head. And regional theatres wonder why they have trouble filling seats.
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#1re: Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Posted: 3/21/06 at 1:18amMaybe for the people who don't want to go to NYC? *shrugs*
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#3re: Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Posted: 3/21/06 at 1:26amWell maybe they're doing it differently.
#4re: Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Posted: 3/21/06 at 3:31amIsn't the production at NJPAC part of the tour? Closer to PA? I don't know...
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millie_dillmount
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#6re: Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Posted: 3/21/06 at 7:59am
From the link:
"We managed to make that case to the Broadway producers and theater owners that we would not significantly detract from the New York City audiences," says NJPAC vice president Jeffrey Norman. "In fact, an argument can be made that we might be in some way helping the Broadway show because productions play at NJPAC for eight performances. If people come to see it here and love it and tell their sisters and cousins to see it after it closes at NJPAC, they'll have to go to New York to see the show."
So they think if anyone raves about the show to someone else, that the person will have to see the Broadway production if they are interested if they find out about it after the tour ends.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Updated On: 3/21/06 at 07:59 AM
CJR
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#7re: Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:37am
It's not a separate production, it's the tour. Frankly, even for as close as it is I'm happy NJPAC is taking the tour. Mostly because I want to see that particular cast far more than I want to see the Broadway cast.
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Updated On: 3/22/06 at 11:37 AM
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#8re: Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Posted: 3/21/06 at 9:10pm
I hope I get to see this.
It is the national tour, starring the fabulous Michelle DeJean, and Terra Macleod.
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#9re: Why is NJPAC staging CHICAGO?
Posted: 3/26/06 at 7:22pmAre you going ljay? I'm very excited for Tuesday!
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#10re: Why is NJPAC staging Chicago, The Producers and Hairspray?
Posted: 5/21/06 at 1:43pm
OK, dredging up an old thread, but I just got the 2006-07 NJPAC schedule in the mail, and they're planning to do The Producers, Hairspray, and Movin' Out next season.
There was another recent thread about that big to-do in the Bronx where a high school had problems getting the rights to Chicago because the school was within a supposed 75-mile exclusion zone. So now I understand why NJPAC getting it in March was such a big deal, as Millie's newspaper clipping notes.
But let's face it, Chicago has been on Broadway for nearly a decade, and besides, it's a revival of a 30-year-old show. So no big deal if someone does it across the river. Easy to look the other way.
But then how did NJPAC get rights to The Producers and Hairspray, which are still on their original runs on Broadway? If only to avoid paying Broadway prices, I'd cross state lines no problem, especially since they're opening an NJPAC stop on the Newark subway this summer.
#11re: Why is NJPAC staging Chicago, The Producers and Hairspray?
Posted: 5/21/06 at 1:50pmIf this is the tour with Coleen Sexton in it, then I might have to go! I am going to the NJPAC for millie soon. NJPAC is closer than the city, but about the same distance for the most part. It's quicker for me to train into the city than to drive to the PAC. I don't know.
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#12re: Why is NJPAC staging Chicago, The Producers and Hairspray?
Posted: 5/21/06 at 2:29pm
Even though I live in NJ, it never made much sence to me to see a Broadway show at the NJPAC, but I'll be there next month to see Millie, simply because I love Millie.
The theatre is much too big, the 7:30 starting time, and there are no decent restaurants nearby, but there are a lot of great Portugese places about a mile away accross the tracks, on and around Ferry St. They stay open late, and worth the trip in itself. I recommend Iberia for their mariscada en salsa verde, but for carne lovers go for the rodizio.
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