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#76

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 2:11pm

Word ghostlight.

They may have delivered it as a joke, but I don't think their intentions are a joke.

"haha, we're saying we're reopening on Broadway... but not really!!!" ...?

I don't think they're that self-depricating.

#77

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 2:47pm

Heidi Blickenstaff is only in Mermaid because they have a "name" lined up for the spring/summer. Her schedule precluded her from beginning this winter.

#78

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:10pm

Considering they didn't cast said "name" until after Heidi had signed a contract setting her own dates...I call shenanigans on your information.

#79

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:14pm

OOh... And of course there is no source to back up the person who just joined today...

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#80

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:20pm

I can back up doubleentendre on this.

They didn't even begin auditioning for the replacement coming in after Blickenstaff until the week the press release announcing her casting was released, which was fairly recently.

Blickenstaff signed the contract to replace Scott the week after [title of show] closed on Broadway and specifically gave ten weeks as her date of availability.

They wanted her and then happened to get a "name" to begin when she wasn't available, not the other way around.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
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#81

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:32pm

Who is the "name"?

#82

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:47pm

I think they probably aren't allowed to announce the name. Disney is pretty strict on that kind of stuff.

#83

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:49pm

I can't imagine a name going into that show - especially as Ursula. Unless it's someone like Rosie O'Donnell or something. Is Ursula's vocal range pretty tough? If Scott and Heidi can sing it - and they both have awesome voices - then the "name" must have to be pretty legit.

#84

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:51pm

I wonder if Andrea McArdle could sing it.

#85

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:55pm

Eartha Kitt for Ursula please!

#86

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/24/08 at 10:02pm

Question: Did [tos] make ANY "Top 10 list" for Broadway/New York theater scene 2008?

From what I can tell, they didn't. But I might be wrong. Please correct me if I am.

Sure, [tos] has friends in high places ~ this website being one of them!!! ~ but if they've lost their eye from the critics, I doubt we have to live in fear of [tos] returning.

#87

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/25/08 at 12:00pm

Hunter hinted they would be back at the stage door on closing night.

2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5 May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot

Updated On: 12/25/08 at 12:00 PM

#88

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 10:06am

BobbyBubby, your suggestion killed her! I hope you're happy.

I wonder if Jodi Benson could pull off playing Ursula? Because...that would be kind of interesting.

#89

re: [tos] to reopen?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 3:55pm

This has veered a little off topic into the Mermaid Lagoon, but to bring it back around, let me just chime in and say that if all the ravenous fans of this thing want it back so badly, then maybe they should all get together and pool their funds and bring it back themselves.No producer with a functioning brain cell is going to touch this steaming pile of damaged goods. So let the fans produce it.There must be a good dozen or so. They can have their choice of theatres after all the January closings, and then, when it is up and running again, they can sit in the empty theatre, which they will have all to themselves, and watch the garbage, I mean show, over and over and over again instead of cluttering up this board with endless posts about it.

VARIETY hit the nail on the head with this insipid musical, in this week's year end round-up:

"The foolhardy transfer of Off Broadway hitlet "(title of show)" was a self-congratulatory bit of insider musical spoofing that (tried too hard)."

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