Why wasn't SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW recorded for DVD?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 7:09pm

Seemed to have been very popular. Unfortunately I wasn't able to see it in NY. It's currently across the ocean in Barcelona.

I wonder why it was never professionally recorded for DVD. Surely one of the networks, PBS, BRAVO, A&E, or OVATION would have been interested in it?

The trailers make it look SO much better than any Cirque du Soliel or Blue Man Group show.

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 7:15pm

The main gimmick of the show would be lost on DVD (unless the DVD came with a snow machine).

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 7:21pm

Missing this show is a blessing!

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 7:26pm

Racist.

[phantom39]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 7:52pm

The usual answer for "Why wasn't X filmed?" is almost always- MONEY.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 8:07pm

I saw the show years ago before it went to New York. Along with the snow two other things that would be missing are the hughe beach balls they threw out into the audience at the end and the "snowball" fight that the audience has after the show.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 11:07pm

I think much would be lost. I loved this through and through.

[jpbran]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 11:55pm

PS-- This would have been something on Bravo or A&E 10-15 years ago, but now they're filled to the overflowing with cooking contests, Type-A real estate flippers, Law & Order reruns (is that A&E?), and high-drama fashion designers.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/17/10 at 2:52am

jp, I actually daydream about taking over A&E and turning it back into what those two letters stand for!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/17/10 at 6:45am

Yep, it was all about money. They were planning on filming it in 3-D, but once they were sued by Corine and had to pay to have her suit cleaned and her hair done, it just wasn't to be.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/29/18 at 4:24pm

I only just found out today that a dear old friend of mine was in the cast.  We were both cast in one of Jerry Bock's last original musicals, Danny and the Dragon.

 

 

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 6/29/18 at 4:37pm

I worked front of house when this was at the Helen Hayes. The Slave cast were all very nice (if smelly and we think they slept in the theatre sometimes) and they threw great parties (as well as producer Joseph Gorden Levitt). BUT the show was so...odd. Very few people came out loving it or understanding it. 

My main memory is the Hayes cleaning crew and ushers basically killing themselves to keep the confetti inside the theatre. When a single piece would blow outside the NYPD would always give us a citation. 

[Amy Archer]

Posted: 6/29/18 at 5:55pm

Because the show ruined Corine's business suit. 

[ethan231h]

Posted: 6/29/18 at 7:29pm

Such a special show, I saw it both times in NYC (union square theatre in 2006 i think) and on broadway in '08. Hope it can come back soon!!

[ethan231h]

Posted: 6/29/18 at 7:29pm

Such a special show, I saw it both times in NYC (union square theatre in 2006 i think) and on broadway in '08. Hope it can come back soon!!

[antonijan]

Posted: 6/29/18 at 10:38pm

I kissed it when ut went to Golden Gate theatre in sF.