Profile for ErmengardeStopSniveling

• June 26, 2021: Springsteen on Broadway return engagement begins
• Aug 4, 2021: Pass Over begins previews
• Sept 2, 2021: Hadestown and

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Call_me_jorge said: "Shows normally don’t launch a tour until one of two things happens; a) the broadway company recoups its initial investment, or b) the broadway company has closed."

Option A and Option B both tend to be coincidental things, by nature of it taking 16-24 months to get a tour out.

Most presenters' subscription seasons are set a year or more in advance, which is the primary reason why a show can't open in March and launch a tour t

Ke3 said: "In the year and half to two year span before it was sold to Amazon, MGM greenlit a ton of projects. Many of them would have mined IP from their vault. My thinking is this was done partially as advertising. "Look what you'll get if you buy us!" I don't think any of the projects they announced will actually happen."

I think this answers the question.

Kail is not a hot film director, and I can think of very few legitimately famous fil

QueenAlice said: "It used to be fairly common for hit Broadway shows to open tours / subsequent U.S. productions prettyquickly after opening on Broadway.Some opened as soon as six months after opening on Broadway. This was true well into the 1980s."

Subscriptions for touring houses weren't really a thing back then, right? I recall PHANTOM and some of the other CamMac shows being the shows that turned the road into what it is today: you could use a hot title to an

WearSunblock said: "is there any logical reason The Notebook is staying open? Are they hoping for an uptick??"

That's a decision of the producer (Kevin McCollum) and the landlord (Shubert Org). If Shubert doesn't need the house until springtime, there's no harm in it staying open if Kevin or another investor can cover the losses of the production via a loan. There have been rumors of Notebook being kept open for McCollum tax writeoff purposes, but I'm

singer234 said: "Yeah yikes for a lot of this but I do wonder how Water for Elephants has not announced yet. Smash has clearly been teasing their announcement for weeks and is just waiting on this notice, right? Maybe the producers for W4E are just trying to stick it to them lol. I'd also be annoyed if I were Smash and a show that's clearly dead was keeping me from building momentum, but that's show biz! Lol."

It doesn't work that way.

chrishuyen said: "I wonder if BTTF starting their tour early is eating into their Broadway sales. I don't remember the exact timing but I think they announced tour dates fairly soon after Broadway performances started so people may have decided to just wait for the tour to come to them (and outside of the last bit in the finale it doesn't seem like the tour is all that scaled down)"

This is a really good point, but I'm inclined to say the tour is

Eek!

If JULIET intends to start stunt-casting or star-casting, they should begin that immediately. I'm sure there are other shows that would love to play the Sondheim this spring.

Any word on timing for BTTF and WATER announcements? SUFFS, perhaps, has a little more leeway before an announcement.

On the plus side...

A surprisingly not-terrible start for HILLS OF CALIFORNIA considering the lack of stars. It's already better than any w

BrodyFosse123 said: "I think it’s safe to assume Gaga will be Miss Adelaide."

That's not a safe assumption at all! Is it safe to assume she'll be offered the role? Absolutely. But offers are meaningless until an actor agrees and signs a contract. She was, allegedly, a top choice for Ursula in MERMAID and turned it down. She gets offered lots of projects, she can be choosy, and hasn't agreed to do an outright musical yet.
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After his performance in MERRILY, I'd like to see Daniel Radcliffe as Nathan but he still might be a hair too young. There are so, so many famous comedic actors who could do the part better than Sinatra. Adam Sandler? Jonah Hill? Nick Kroll? Bill Hader?

Tons of Sky, Sarah, and Adelaide options too, depending how they want to go with the roles (and how race will play into the casting, if it plays into it at all).

J.K. Simmons would be a great Big Jule, unles