I don't understand this...their advertising was so fresh...
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
I don't want it to fail, but really did anyone think this would be a sell out?
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Nothing matters but knowing nothing matters. ~ Wicked
Everything in life is only for now. ~ Avenue Q
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent
it's hard to sell the aisle seats where La Lupone will not be striding by braying "Sing out Louise." The faithful want to be able to touch the hem of her robe.
Read it again.. they are questioning the previous weeks number as there was no previous week. Playbill is reporting 52% and no previous week. The number is 52%... deal with it! Updated On: 3/10/08 at 06:26 PM
I have no idea if this does actually have anything to do with this, but a lot of people just rushed to see this in July, so they may be waiting a while longer to see it again than first week of previews. I know I am one of those people.
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
Did it pack city center for those few weeks? No. There is just no need for this revival. Even the last one limped along for its year run.
What was an exciting idea for a summer show has turned into a vanity project for Laurents. I hope he gets his rocks off on such a huge financial disaster.
I am one of those people too MotorTink. I'm seeing it in about a week and a half. By the way everyone, all of my early Tony predictions for this show are based on the City Center incarnation. So if, for example, Boyd Gaines isn't as strong as he was at City Center (which I highly doubt, he's probably gotten better) and you read a post of mine plugging him for Featured Actor, remember that.
Why anyone would be surprised about this is beyond me. As it has been said before, it's first week of previews in March of all months. Not only that, but it's a revival that commercially speaking makes absolutely no sense. I have no doubts that when the reviews come out, it'll see a nice bump but it wasn't a sell-out at City Center and it won't be a sell-out on Broadway.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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.