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why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 4:42pm

i just wonder, phantom has kept running, RENT has kept running, why did les mis close? isnt it an extremely popular show?

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re: why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 4:53pm

andrew lloyd webber was getting jealous and whispered to cameron mackintosh to pull the plug.

re: why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:02pm

It stopped being a profitable business, that's all.

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re: why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:05pm

I wish they had left it till it passed Cats. Oh well, the ALW would have kept Phantom going until it passed Miz.

re: why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:06pm

Hot avatar.

It closed because it was boring.

re: why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:10pm

Because it was tired of being alone, waiting in the shadows. And it was the end of the day.

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re: why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:10pm

Because every actor in New York had been in it.

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re: why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:14pm

Wait, shouldn't L & O be cancelled, then?

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re: why did les mis close??

Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:16pm

Oh! Good one, Lizzie.

#10

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:18pm

NOO! I love me some L&O.

#11

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:27pm

"why did les mis close??"

Because life is unfair and G-d is out to make me miserable

~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~

#12

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 5:27pm

Ah. Miserable.

G-d was unhappy Les Mis had more of a follwing than HE had...

The smallest stream is a valent river. It will drown me if it can.

#13

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 6:11pm

Because the actors were bored playing it. No kidding. At one point, they had to close the show down and everyone had to reaudition for their roles.

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#14

At one point, they had to close the show down and everyone had to reaudition for their roles.

That was six years before the show actually closed, though. And it wasn't "everyone." They weren't all even allowed to reaudition.

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 6:17pm

because from what i learned in my theatre management class today...... broadway is a for profit corporation and in order for a show to continue running it has to be pulling in a ceartain amount of money to make a profit to pay the investors back and such. so apparently Les Miz wasn't and thats that.

#16

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 6:39pm

"That was six years before the show actually closed, though."

They should have closed it then. The last time I saw it, Eponine screamed her way through "On My Own". It was so bad, the audience down at Rent could hear her. They thought it was a reprise verse of "Out Tonight".

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.

#17

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 6:41pm

haha goth!

thanks guys!

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#18

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:28pm

In its last year what was it pulling in? money and audience percentage wise?

#19

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:32pm

Off topic--

Why do some of you type God as G-d? Everytime I see that I say 'g' 'd'.

#20

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:39pm

"because from what i learned in my theatre management class today...... broadway is a for profit corporation and in order for a show to continue running it has to be pulling in a ceartain amount of money to make a profit to pay the investors back and such. so apparently Les Miz wasn't and thats that. "

Les Miz had LONG since paid back its investment. It closed becuase of costs, true enough. It had it's day. I think the tour is about to close soon as well.

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 8:51pm

"Off topic-- Why do some of you type God as G-d? Everytime I see that I say 'g' 'd'."

Jewish people do it. "A way of avoiding writing a name of G-d, to avoid the risk of the sin of erasing or defacing the Name."
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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.

#22

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Posted: 2/2/06 at 9:28pm

Because it's quality was gone! They cut it, diced it and trimmed it and had a company that cared nothing for the material. It turned into a piece of Les Crap!

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#23

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Posted: 2/3/06 at 12:15am

"I wish they had left it till it passed Cats. Oh well, the ALW would have kept Phantom going until it passed Miz."

Really? They closed MIZ because it had poor business and wasn't making the money it used to make.

Even if MIZ had run past CATS, yes ALW would have kept running PHANTOM to pass MIZ, but the difference is that PHANTOM is STILL making a bundle of money...Miz wasn't. ALW would not have run it just to pass MIZ but he would have run it to keep making money.

#24

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Posted: 2/3/06 at 2:05am

Ok, I'm a Christian and choose not to take the Lord's name in vain, but typing 'G-d' is absolutely no different than typing 'God'...it's the fact that you are using his name in a bad way or the way you would use a curse word that's the problem (which you really weren't doing in the first place; speaking about God the divine creator isn't taking His name in vain...it's just speaking about Him)

not to stomp on toes...just my opinion!

#25

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Posted: 2/3/06 at 3:51am

When I was checking capacity of the show, I remember seeing it in the high 40 percent range...not to good plus their were a lot of show discounts.

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