I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
It's about time. I'm sure it will tour well, but the show didn't really do much for the show or for Broadway. It wasn't anything new. And I think this season has proved how well an innovative new staging of a classic can be.
Although I'm sad to see it go, I really agree with RentBoy.
I'll see it in Boston this fall anyway.
"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster.
"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
CONGRATULATIONS ON A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION! Thank you for bringing the classic back to the boards. You truly are The One. Tour:Merde! Updated On: 6/3/08 at 06:31 PM
How sad I will most certainly have to see it again while I'm in NYC for the Tonys.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Wow. I didn't see that coming at all...as someone who was not alive during the original run, this production was one of the most, if not the most moving experience I have had in the theater. What a magnificient show. It will be missed.
Awwwwww. That's sad Well Im sure the cast will all move on to new projects. So that's good.
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Wow. I personally thought it would run a bit longer.
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!"
-Kermit the frog"I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P."Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu""...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu
After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
i was just talking to someone today about this show and how i thought it would run for YEARS. i'm very surprised to see it's leaving so quickly! i wonder what other show they want to get in it's spot?
I, for one, am grateful it was a re-staging of the original - which I never got to see. But that's just me. I didn't even care for it that much. Superb dancing but it was still stale.
Any guess for which show will replace it?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle