why did millie close?

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:10pm

just wondering.....

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:12pm

People stopped going?

[C is for Company]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:16pm

The audiences started getting more stupid and had increasingly harder times finding the show! I can't tell you how many people just kept getting stuck on the first floor of the Marriott and eventually, if you can believe it, just started giving up after getting even worse.

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:25pm

is that really true about the marquis theater??

i've been there 3 times...and didn't have any trouble.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:27pm

No, I'm just kidding around :). I think Millie's time was up I guess after 3 years(right, 3?)

Updated On: 6/1/06 at 07:27 PM

[folkyboy]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:27pm

Little_Miss_Elphie, if you believe that maybe you've been privy to emulating one of those people...

[mlsheehan]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:31pm

I heard it was bad wigs.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:33pm

I was suprised to hear it didnt make back its investment and is considered a flop. Even though it ran for 3 yrs and won the Tony and made Sutton a star.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:34pm

and, remarkably, it closed STILL in the red.

edit: Rentboy you beat me to it!

Updated On: 6/1/06 at 07:34 PM

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:39pm

no actually C is for Company completely had me for a minute there....lol

[C is for Company]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:42pm

Hey, it is understandable. They have the marquee and then its like under the overhang, down to the hotel, up the escalator, go into the theater. I mean you don't have to be a genius, but it is a little more tricky to find than say any other show with a ticket office and then go on into the lobby. They don't even have indications of where it is in the hotel I believe.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:47pm

That does sound kind of confusing. They need a bigger marquee. It sort of gets lost with everything else in Times Square. I have a question that is way off topic, but still in the realm. I was walking down Times Square by the Marquis theater and there were lights shining on the sidewalk that said "The View." My mother and I couldn't figure out if that's where the View is taped? I was looking on Broadway.com and they had a Tony brunch at the View - part of the Marriot Marquis. So now i'm confused. Thanks.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:52pm

I think that is just their restuarant, it swivels 360 degrees each hour, slowly rotating to give a great NYC skyline view.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:55pm

The View is a restaurant. It doesn't swivel, as far as I know. It just has a great view of Times Square.

"The View" is taped uptown.

Posted: 6/1/06 at 7:56pm

yeahh.. The View is a revolving restuarant on the 45th floor of the hotel. It has absolutley breathtaking views of the city @ night.
Its one of my favorite restaurants in the city. =)

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 8:02pm

Oh, well that sounds cool. The logo just looked like the one from the actual show. Thanks. I thought it was weird to tape a talk show in a hotel, but hey, I wouldn't put it past them.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 1:54am

TMM is hardly the only show to run two years or so (it ran 26 months) and close in the red.

I'm not sure if TMM ever played a completely sold-out week. If it did, it was probably just Christmas week.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 1:56am

that sucks it was such a great show

[acrocksyo]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:08am

I am pretty sure that it closed because Susan Egan didn't have the same kind of performance that Sutton did, and that she couldn't carry the show.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:28am

I think the main draw to MILLIE was to see this "overnight sensation", Sutton Foster. The show itself blew.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:40am

It seemed like most people saw it once, but then weren't interested in going back. I think Sutton drew in a large population of young people, and then there were the tourists that couldn't get tickets for shows like The Producers and Hairspray. And the theatre people seemed to be more interested in seeing shows like Urinetown and Avenue Q.

Susan Egan was also an awful choice for a replacement.

[Fabrizio2]

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

She was too old for the role in my opinion.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 2:45am

I can't believe they made a musical out of this. The movie sucked! And the title is almost a tongue twister. For me, anyway.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:06am

It's not as if it was doing such great business even with Foster. As I wrote above, I don't think it ever played a sold-out week. At most, one or two. Meanwhile, The Drowsy Chaperone has already played one, even before winning a best musical Tony. (Of course, we don't know yet if it will win.)

A lot of people just didn't think TMM was a very good show. If Foster had stayed in the show longer or even if they'd gotten a more apt replacement, it wouldn't have run much longer. Unless that replacement was a name.

It's ironic that Urinetown managed to pay off, though just barely. The less commercial show paid off, even while playing to much smaller audiences.
Updated On: 6/2/06 at 03:06 AM

[TLKfan]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 5:15am

StageManager....from what my friends tell me who know a great deal about Millie, is that the movie is completely different and you really can't compare the two.