zanna coming to b'way

[dididda]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:38pm

WOW, just read this on broadway.com. SUPER EXCITING, this makes me super happy!:)
http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=501875&CT=38

sorry if this was already stated i was way too excited to find a thread! haha

Updated On: 11/1/04 at 06:38 PM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:40pm

read it a few days ago. I LOVE Serge Kushnier and Robb Sapp and J-Tart.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:43pm

AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited (and it's really creepy that I was listening to Zanna before I saw this thread). EEEEEEEE! I love this show!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!

Sorry... I'm just really excited.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:44pm

I just got a copy of the cast album a few days ago and I love it! The songs "I think we got love" and "Do you know what it's like?" are new favourites of mine. I can't wait.

Akiva

[ponine24601]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:53pm

ahh yay!!!! i want chester to be in it!!!!!

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:55pm

I think it's a mistake myself. I enjoyed Zanna but, IMO, it's the kind of show that isn't going to do as well when moved to the larger venues of Broadway. It will be interesting, though, to see who is cast. If they bring back any of the originals, I'd vote for Anika.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:01pm

That's awesome news! I hope Jai is cast as zanna. Ah heck, bring back the whole original cast.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:01pm

broadway does NOT mean big venues. Not every theatre is the Ford center of Gershwin.

[dididda]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:05pm

feelings on the role of zanna: love jai to death, but would like to see j. tart take on the role(although that means hes not ave q) and plus this would free jai up to be in a certain movie-musical going into production....

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:09pm

"broadway does NOT mean big venues. Not every theatre is the Ford center of Gershwin."

broadwayguy, I'm well aware of that, having been in most of them. Did you see Zanna at the Houseman? If so, then you know that it sat less than 300. They couldn't even sell out that house, and closed early. What makes you think that Broadway would make a difference, considering there's no theatre even close to the size of the Houseman on Broadway.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:11pm

I could see Zanna easily play at the helen hays theatre.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:11pm

Maybe sales will be up because I know certain people (such as meand a bunch of people here) have only gotten interested in it after it closed.

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:15pm

jai, the helen hayes would be okay except that it's booked for an open ended run of Jackie Mason's show beginning in March.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:16pm

true.....hmm

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:18pm

Oh happy day!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:20pm

one of the things about off-broadway is that it is hard to sell out shows because budgets are lower and they don't get the kind of publicity broadway productions get.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:22pm

wats zanna about? plz dont kill me

[Alix]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:22pm

YAY!!! I love ZANNA! would someone mind posting the info that is in the article?? broadway.com isn't working for me right now.

Alix

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:23pm

Alix,
It just says that tehs how played off-broadway at the houseman, had a readinga few months ago, and is aiming for a spring bow on broadway with casting beginning later this month.

[Alix]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:26pm

Thanks broadwayguy2 :)

Alix

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:28pm

you're very welcome.

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:30pm

As much as I am a supporter of new works coming to Broadway..

I think this is a mistake.

While everyone here is fanatical for it, remember..who buys the tickets? Is this show going to sell to the midwest tourists? The afternoon show ladies? Are the southeners gonna stop by?

And you know they will place it in a much larger theater than it originally played. There are no Broadway theaters that small. What we will have is another Little Shop...a small, intimate show that is made bigger and larger for no reason other than to "fit" the theater.

[dididda]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:32pm

also says thy've dropped the dont from the title and re-worked some stuff.

[Corine2]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:53pm

I loved Zanna and Tim Acito.
I hope it is a huge success.
Updated On: 11/1/04 at 07:53 PM

[Speed]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:54pm

Why the title change? Wasn't the title a clever play on the name of that old Olivia Newton John movie, Xanadu??