how long do you think TMM will run?

Ive hear that Thoroughly Modern Millie is expected to run for 3 or 4 years more but now i hear just until late 04 early 05. I dont know, once they loose Sutton, will they be doomed?

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If they bring back the Gavinator, Ken will buy out the show for a year!

HAHA! i wish they did bring Gavin back. I mean sutton and him were so great together! I LOVE THAT SHOW! but i think alot of that show IS SUTTON! i mean if she leaves, who will they have? Christian, Leslie, who else, is Angela Christian still there?

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They can ditch Christian and Angela and bring in bags of rocks and it would improve the show.......

never been a fan of Christian or Angela... Jessica is a MUCH more enjoyable performer... move her up into the role.

Delta Burke was absolutely hilarious. Even though I've seen the show numerous times she really got tons of laughs out of me. I think it was the little words she added in hear and there that made her so funny. She made some pretty crazy faces too. She really got her character down too, she's no Harriet Harris, but she's pretty darn good.

Just for the record, Sutton's no big box office name, so her leaving the show won't affect ticket sales thqat much. And Christian is far more talented than Gavin will ever be, thank you very much.

Soon as sutton leaves the show closes, the show has a stigma around it because of her, Im not sure that anyone will be able to get past the Sutton spell. Maybe they could bring in a stunt cast like Carmen Elektra, at least people would pay to a see what they would think a freak show, and see that she's wonderfull.

In conclusion Bad Shows must have a Star to survive.

STEVOS

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I am seeing this show for the first time tomorrow night (in a way, it's my first date!). I am seeing it on tour. I think I am going to love Darcie as Millie. Janelle looks good as Flannery and Hollis looks like a hilarious Meers. I will tell you what I think tomorrow night.

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I give the Broadway Millie four months max post-Sutton.

I was on assignment in a city the Millie tour was in. Tried to get to the stage door to meet the stars, not that I would pay to see that show, but I did want to meet everybody. Anyway, the review in this major market city that I read had me LOLing.

It said Millie is an environmentalist's dream, given that it is made up entirely of recycled material It mentioned cast-wide lack of charisma but singled out Darcie as being bland. The reviewer also looked askance at the racist Chinese portrayals and the white slavery subplot ("this is comedy?" was the actual quote). Apparently they were offering discounts on tickets in this city, and it only played six days there. Not a good sign.

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Major markets often have way more than two shows running, sometimes three! Or five even!!

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I think you're really reaching to make excuses for the fact that Millie really isn't going to have much of an impact and is negligible in the grand scheme of things. If you look at the Boston theater scene, for instance, tho not as vibrant as a real city like my beloved Chicago, there are quite a few theaters and frequently overlapping tours. You are the first person I have ever heard say a show did poorly because another show is in town. Generally, when one show does good business, or sells out, it's actually good for the other shows in town. I just looked at tour listings and Hairspray was in Beantown for a month, Millie a week. A week! You would think that with the Tony and the tapping and the yapping you guys do all the time about that show and the diaries and the hopes and the dreams that they could do better than discounting tickets on a show's first time around.

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My point is, it's not doing well, and the very people who were expected to lap it up on tour don't care at all about it. The smartest thing they could have done was to NOT rest it all on Sutton's shoulders and turn it into a Manhattan-only thing that people see in New York cuz it simulates some fantasy of moving to the big city.

People in other cities don't romanticize New York that way. And the movie was never popular enough to exploit the title-recognition that the producers were counting on. Plus, it's racist, which doesn't fly in many locations.

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But they just ain't interested. And I think that proves the producers who had the cynical notion that they would sell it big to the hinterlands all wrong. I hope they learned the lesson well.

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