Y dd th'original SB close?
Y dd th'original SB close?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#1Y dd th'original SB close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:11pm
Everyone says that it revolutionized musical theatre but if that's so why isn't it still running?
Updated On: 11/20/12 at 09:11 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:15pmThey had a very poor rush policy.
#2Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:16pm
Don't you mean SB?
Actually letting people know what you're talking about is so 2003.
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#3Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:16pmI heard the ushers were really rude so the fanboys only saw the show 5 times instead of 17.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:19pmHaving seen the show, I can tell you that it didn't have a show curtain. Definitely reason for a short run in my book.
#5Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:21pmI heard Edna Mae Oliver was a total bitch at the stage door.
#6Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:22pmBasically the score sucked.
#7Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:27pmThe producers got into a big tussle with Jerome Kern over tweet seats, and they just couldn't work it out.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:28pmThey didn't have color Playbills.
#9Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:31pmAnd Sutton Foster was all wrong for Queenie.
#10Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:34pmI thought it would win 27 Tonys, but alas the Tonys wouldn't be invented for another quarter of a century. Like Chicago, it was ahead of its time.
#11Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:41pmAlso, it didn't help that A Chorus Line opened 48 years later.
pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#12Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 9:56pmI think that's a false causality. I wouldn't call a falling chandelier revolutionary, but Phantom of the Opera is still running...
#13Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 10:06pm
Truth be told, their show curtain sucked and their SB coffee mugs and tee shirts looked cheap.
#14Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 10:10pmSomeone done frew up on me from the balcuny.
#15Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/20/12 at 10:25pmIsn't dat where the darkies sit?
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#19Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/21/12 at 1:20am
This is why I hate abbreviations. As it still says SB on the main board I first thought Sunset Boulevard and then Sugar Babies.
#20Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/21/12 at 7:36am
I thought it was Son of a Bitch, just misspelled.
#21Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/21/12 at 10:23amIs there going to be a soundtrack?
followspot
Broadway Star Joined: 12/27/11
#22Why did the original Show Boat close?
Posted: 11/21/12 at 10:24am
@morganajames HOW can you f#*k up Show Boat?? I fear musicianship is dead in musical theatre. And acting, for that matter. #horrified
It was pretty much downhill after that.
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