Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
#1Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:54pm
According to the Associated Press, Xanadu is postponing its opening to an as yet undetermined date. Apparently, it is also unclear whether James Carpinello will return to the production.
Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
#2re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:58pmYikes. This may be the NEW Sweet Charity. Star breaks foot, show postponed, show called off, show back on.
#2re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:59pm
I can't see them cancelling the show because a no-name actor hurt his foot. It's not as if the money backing the production and the advance sales are because of Carpinello.
#3re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:02pm
Apparently, it is also unclear whether James Carpinello will return to the production.
Nowhere in that article does it say that it is unclear whether Carpinello will return to the production. It says it is unclear WHEN he will return to the production.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#4re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:02pmExactly, Munk. They won't cancel the show because of Carpinello...they will (or should) cancel the show because it is awful.
#5re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:05pmIt is awful and it'd be wonderful to see it not open. That won't happen though. I like the people invovled too. It's a shame the show's so bad.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#6re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:09pm
XANADU is simply postponing it's opening -- no where was it called off then called back on.
Numerous hit shows have postponed their opening, not once but several times.
FUNNY GIRL postponed it's opening several times.
It's more than apparent that this postponement is due to Carpinello's foot injury. I'm quite sure they want him to be back in the show for it's opening. Period.
#7re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:12pm
no where was it called off then called back on.
- I was giving an example of the Sweet Charity history.
Right now Xanadu is at, star breaks foot, show postponed. Sweet Charity followed the same path.
#8re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:12pmAwful production, eh? Do tell me, jv92, why you think the production is "awful" and "bad."
--Aristotle
#9re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:22pmWhat are you guys doing responding after BrodyFosse? The man said Period.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#10re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:24pmOH! WOOPS! I forgot. BrodyFosse is God. And he knows it all. And he always gets his way.
#11re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:27pmIn know this is the place where we give our opinions, but is it necessary to give the same ones quite so often?
Rypm25
Stand-by Joined: 5/21/03
#12re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:30pm
I rarely post more than one message about a show i've already seen and posted on. However, since some people seem to make it quite clear, over and over and over again, that they didn't like Xanadu, I would just like to chime in again, and say that I loved it and had a great time! I didn't think it was bad, or awful or terrible! I can't wait to see it again. I feel bad about James Carpinello however, hope he has a quick recovery.
Updated On: 6/13/07 at 04:30 PM
#13re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:34pmAgree, Xanadu was great. I hope they find a solution to all this soon!
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#14re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:40pm
yer s'posed to break a LEG not a foot!
hyuk hyuk hyuk
ok, lets wish him a speedy recovery & best wishes to the cast & crew of XANADU.
#15re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:40pm
I miss the days when shows that did not belong on Broadway closed during previews. Xanadu is more of an off-Broadway show.
It seems to me that James Carpinello has made a series of bad career moves beginning with his dropping out of the original production of Hairspray to appear in a film. Whatever happened to that?
#16re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:46pm
"I miss the days when shows that did not belong on Broadway closed during previews"
Says the one with the HOT FEET avatar?
#17re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:48pmYea, but it at least made it through opening night and then some.
#18re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:51pm
That's because it had producers that wanted to burn money.
I doubt it made a cent, playing to empty houses at the Hilton.
#19re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 4:52pm
*slayed*
That was a really good point.
#21re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 5:36pm
I miss the days when Broadway was a place where all types of theatre can have a shot at making it. Oh wait...it is!
Good grief...theatre people are so judgemental.
#22re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 5:41pmI wish him a very speedy recovery. I'll be seeing it next Saturday (can't wait!) I am not looking for anything deep and profound just fun for this trip.
Kate2
Swing Joined: 2/10/05
#23re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 5:43pmI hope I don't sound like an ass, but could I get my money back since I have tickets for saturday? Or not? I don't know how any of that works...
#24re: Xanadu postpones Broadway opening
Posted: 6/13/07 at 6:31pmYou do sound like an ass, you can't judge a show before you see it.
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