Will Fiddler Close?- Page 2

[rawleygirl]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 1:09am

A stop clause is in every show's contract with the theatre.
Basically,it says that the theatre owner has the right to bounce the show out of the theatre if it grosses below a certain level on a given week. Frequently, producers will put more money in a show to get the weekly gross above the stop clause if they think the landlord might invoke it, which is usually done if there's another show panting to get into the theatre. these days, with so many landlords being producers, the stop clause is not called into play as much as it used to be. nevertheless, it does happen. The producers of FIDDLER have had a year and a half of middling business with one of Broadway's greatest moneymakers. They would like the show to pay off so they can close it without having the embarrassment of being the only people ever to mount a flop production of FIDDLER. Its prospects for making anything more than a nominal amount once it pays off are very slim. At a certain point, every producer wants to cut his losses and move on.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 1:25am

Not to be nasty, but I'm slightly surprised that Fiddler has last this long. It's certainly a good show, but I'm still surprised.


I still haven't seen Phantom; movie or stage version. They can't close until I see it.

[Theatreboy33]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 3:27am

Theyve added an aisle in the minskoff. Two i believe. Though it still is cavernous and impersonal. I cant imagine why any show would specially reuqest it.

[BroadwayMel]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 7:45am

No...but I went last week and it was empty, empty, empty -- maybe a 3rd of the House was full. Granted it was a weeknight, but I can't imagine any show lasting that long with a house less than 1/2 full.

[midtowngym]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 10:58am

I've seen WIW. The set is PERFECT for a 'huge, impersonal space.' It's a HUGE, curved sceen (it appears almost IMAX size)upon which the HUGE castle that the show takes place in is projected. Also, the HUGE gardens, scenery, etc are projected onto it. Get the idea!?

[DAME]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 11:40am

I wasn't refering to the set. WIW is just such a dull show. Save your money people. Poppins is on its way.

[RYANWOODS]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 12:34pm

Mary Poppins is just Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious! WIW projections after a while make you feel sick and the first-half is so long-drawn out and just awful...i could have slept!
Mary Poppins Broadway will adore...much more than WIW! It supposedly transfering late 06, possibly early 07.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 2:06pm

Excuse me. Didn't I hear that John Stamos has been signed to replace Harvey at the end of August?

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 2:14pm

Anything would be better than Harvey

[DAME]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 2:32pm

Thernadier,
Let me know when you recuperate from that bitch slap I just sent you. So I can do it again. Harver is wonderful in the show. And I am thinking of going again.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 2:33pm

Thernadier,
Let me know when you recuperate from that bitch slap I just sent you. So I can do it again. Harvey is wonderful in the show. And I am thinking of going again.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 2:37pm

I have recovered (twice)

I just didn't like him. He was funny - a lto funnier than Al. But the singing - I won't judge because you know what you are getting yourself into. Just the emotional scenes...."Chave NO!" sounded like a frog croacking and dying.

I wasn't feeling it - and a lot of people around me weren't either.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 3:05pm

Well ;
Perhaps if you would be paying attention to whats going on on stage as opposed to whats going on around you.

But anyway.. I thought he was absolutely wonderful. But again; different strokes for different folks.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/25/05 at 3:06pm

"Perhaps if you would be paying attention to whats going on on stage as opposed to whats going on around you"

nothing was going on onstage...

But you are right, Diff'rent strokes for us Jew folks....