will Spelling Bee close soon?- Page 2

[AC126748]

re: will Spelling Bee close soon?#25

Posted: 6/13/07 at 9:13am

They've been papering the house regularly for some time now. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if it didn't make it through the summer.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Creative Lunatic]

re: will Spelling Bee close soon?#26

Posted: 6/13/07 at 9:23am

Spelling Bee is one of Broadway's financial successes. It made its investment back in just a little over two months of opening. A new production is presently running in Australia with a Canadian tour to begin in 2008. LA is loving the OBC out there.
This week's grosses are just under 80%. Think about how many shows have hung on playing to a fraction of those kind of houses.
Can, we celebrate what this little show is still achieving and not put the nails in its coffin just yet?

[millie_dillmount]

re: will Spelling Bee close soon?#27

Posted: 6/13/07 at 9:47am

The show is playing at a fairly above average capacity. The total gross might be lower than other shows, but it doesn't cost a lot to run Bee each week. I can see it playing for at least another year.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[broadwayboy1017]

re: will Spelling Bee close soon?#28

Posted: 6/13/07 at 11:21am

it's a tiny theater, so thye dont have a big overhead.

[jochang621]

re: will Spelling Bee close soon?#29

Posted: 6/13/07 at 11:50am

i talked to lisa yuen (one of the understudies for the original broadway cast) who said that this show is going to run forever because it costs so little to put on every night, and as long as they're making money, it'll still continue to run.

i hope it doesn't close soon... it's still one of my favorite shows, it never fails to make me laugh uncontrollably.

[millie_dillmount]

re: will Spelling Bee close soon?#30

Posted: 6/13/07 at 12:12pm

Did they recoup their initial investment? If so, they'll be profiting with this show and won't close unless sales take a turn for the worse.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Creative Lunatic]

re: will Spelling Bee close soon?#31

Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:53pm

As I said in my earlier post,Spelling Bee recouped their initial investment in about 2 and one half months.
David Stone, the producer of this also produces Wicked.I think this show is a long way from life support.