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[FindingNamo]

re: godspell cancelled#25

Posted: 8/14/08 at 11:07am

"How would you like to be prepping for rehearsals, learning lines and music and doing research"

For Godspell?

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[bdboston]

re: godspell cancelled#26

Posted: 8/14/08 at 11:11am

I'm kind of surprised that the e-mail had not been leaked by now.

[dramamama611]

re: godspell cancelled#27

Posted: 8/14/08 at 11:15am

Pretty sad to be notified via email. (Because the cast is so huge it would take hours to contact them?)

I suppose a million dollars doesn't seem like a tremendous amount...but out of the total figure (4.5 Mill) it's a pretty big percentage of missing funds.

And even though we'd heard the rumors since Tues. night, I am still saddened.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[Gothampc]

re: godspell cancelled#28

Posted: 8/14/08 at 11:19am

"And even though we'd heard the rumors since Tues. night, I am still saddened."

I didn't hear any rumors because I read posts at BWW, which for some reason has a lot of disappearing posts.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[BGillis]

re: godspell cancelled#29

Posted: 8/14/08 at 11:22am

So that makes 5 cancellations this season:

Angels (no great loss)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (big loss)
Brigadoon (The Choreography was brilliant for this revival)
Colored Girls ... Enuf (Would have loved to have seen it)
Godspell

Do you think the cancellation of these shows will make theatres available for others or help shows like [TOS] run longer?

Bruce

[Calvin]

re: godspell cancelled#30

Posted: 8/14/08 at 11:30am

Why are they still selling tickets?

Just for giggles, I checked out Telecharge, which was more than willing to sell me a couple of full price tickets to the Sept. 29 show.

[JRybka]

re: godspell cancelled#32

Posted: 8/14/08 at 11:33am

I actually was thinking of going to see this. I am very sad by the news.

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

[BustopherPhantom]

re: godspell cancelled#33

Posted: 8/14/08 at 11:58am

ANGELS was cancelled? I know the tryout was, but the whole production...?

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[kec]

re: godspell cancelled#34

Posted: 8/14/08 at 12:02pm

"And even though we'd heard the rumors since Tues. night, I am still saddened."

As am I.

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: godspell cancelled#35

Posted: 8/14/08 at 12:06pm

I guess this sounds rather hard-hearted, but any guesses for what's next to cancel (or, if you will, postpone)?

BroadwayEd

[scaryclowns223]

re: godspell cancelled#36

Posted: 8/14/08 at 12:08pm

This is terrible, but I think we all need to salute Adam Epstein for doing ONE thing right:

Earlier this year, the producers behind GLORY DAYS brought in a show that was under-capitalized and didn't have the proper financial support it needed to sustain a long run. HOWEVER, instead of cancelling the show before it began (like they should have), they waited until opening night, then realized that their show didn't have the financial support to move on, and cancelled it- wasting three weeks in the lives of several actors and creatives and costing many people what were, at the time, very steady jobs.

The same happened in London with JAY JOHNSON'S THE TWO AND ONLY, which opened to raves and was attracting ticket buyers, but had to close after two weeks because it was not properly capitalized before it began.

But Adam Epstein is being a stand-up guy, and isn't trying to waste anyone's time by sending these actors into rehearsal and simultaneously trying to come up with money. He's doing the right thing.

That said- this sucks BIG TIME, for everyone involved.

[jaystarr]

re: godspell cancelled#37

Posted: 8/14/08 at 12:12pm

I am afraid for TITLE OF THE SHOW! They are barely making it~almost 40-50% of its capacity every week!

A TALE OF TWO CITIES will starts previews next week. I should probably see it soon like 8/23 instead of 9/6? It looks like anything can be cancelled now a days!

J*

[Mattbrain]

re: godspell cancelled#38

Posted: 8/14/08 at 12:39pm

Wait, Angels was cancelled too?

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[dramamama611]

re: godspell cancelled#39

Posted: 8/14/08 at 12:47pm

I guess this sounds rather hard-hearted, but any guesses for what's next to cancel (or, if you will, postpone)?


Hard-hearted, perhaps, but not unrealistic. I'm afraid for much of B'way....and it won't be too long until Off B'way begins to feel the pinch. Unless, like during the strike, they reap the benefits! (Which wouldn't be horrible.)

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[TooDarnHot]

re: godspell cancelled#40

Posted: 8/14/08 at 12:49pm

"they waited until opening night, then realized that their show didn't have the financial support to move on, and cancelled it- wasting three weeks in the lives of several actors and creatives and costing many people what were, at the time, very steady jobs."


FYI - the producers of GLORY DAYS did not "realize" on Opening Night.

They had known, over two weeks before, that it wouldn't clear out of the red.

They waited to post the Closing Notice in hopes of a successful preview week (which didn't happen).

[TheAppleTree]

re: godspell cancelled#41

Posted: 8/14/08 at 12:57pm

The part about the cast finding out via email is what took me by surprise. Is this the typical way something like this is done? It seems like a small enough cast that those involved in the decision could divide up a list of names and start calling people. Adam Epstein made a responsible decision not to move forward but if he was also responsible for the mass email notification (or told somebody to do it that way) that seems very impersonal and cold considering several in the cast were obviously going to feel crushed by the news.

[Scarywarhol]

re: godspell cancelled#42

Posted: 8/14/08 at 1:12pm

Damn it to hell. Somebody in that cast wasn't praying hard enough!

[Mattbrain]

re: godspell cancelled#43

Posted: 8/14/08 at 1:15pm

I agree with everyone about the e-mail thing. That's just so cold and impersonal.

I feel sorry for everyone involved.

I just hope this doesn't keep happening during this season. And I thought that the 2005-2006 season was a bloodbath. This is worse.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[JP2]

re: godspell cancelled#44

Posted: 8/14/08 at 1:35pm

This sucks.

[Unmasked05]

re: godspell cancelled#45

Posted: 8/14/08 at 1:46pm

Man I really wanted to see the show !!! But I wish the actors the best of luck and I hope this situation changes.

Facebook...ME !!!

[starlyricist]

re: godspell cancelled#46

Posted: 8/14/08 at 1:51pm

I just saw Telly Leung at Broadway in Bryant Park with RENT. I wonder if he's going back?

(btw, whoever was in charge of sound should be shot...seriously)

There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate their creative freedom, a little part of me just wants to punch those motherf*ckers in the teeth...[tos]

[ItsCalledHistory]

re: godspell cancelled#46

Posted: 8/14/08 at 2:03pm

You said: "I just saw Telly Leung at Broadway in Bryant Park with RENT. I wonder if he's going back?"

I don't believe Telly ever left RENT. I believe he's always been scheduled to stay up until the end.

[starlyricist]

re: godspell cancelled#47

Posted: 8/14/08 at 2:04pm

Oops.

My bad.

He was fierce during Seasons of Love.

But this is about Godspell, so...

I got nuthin'.

There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate their creative freedom, a little part of me just wants to punch those motherf*ckers in the teeth...[tos]

[wicked_beast4]

re: godspell cancelled#48

Posted: 8/14/08 at 2:06pm

SO I'm guessing no Godspell in Bryant park today...

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

[starlyricist]

re: godspell cancelled#49

Posted: 8/14/08 at 2:10pm

We'll see tomorrow. It wasn't scheduled for today.

There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate their creative freedom, a little part of me just wants to punch those motherf*ckers in the teeth...[tos]