LW closing anyone?
LW closing anyone?
Marlothom
Broadway Star Joined: 4/13/04
#0LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 7:10pmTell us all about it, speeches? cries? etc/
"Observe how bravely I conceal this dreadful dreadful shame I feel."
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
#1re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 7:18pm
Yes! Please do! And pictures...
Do you think broadway.com or bww.com was there to take pics?
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
Wishes come true, not free.
Wishes come true, not free.
#2re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 7:21pm
..wait I totally missed something
When did they close? Today?!
...and how did I not know this? ::hits self:: Read more BWW dammit!
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
#3re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 7:27pm
Wow, Sally, you must've been out of it for a few days...
Yes, they closed today. 
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
Wishes come true, not free.
Wishes come true, not free.
#4re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 7:31pmMy friend is going! I wish I could go. It would be so sad for me. It shouldn't have been such a flop.
i*heart*fame
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/04
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Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:07pmI was there. I also saw Audra McDonald, Michael Cerveris, Hunter Foster, and Jen Cody. It was really sad because there are all these moments in the show about family unity and staying together. Megin McGinnis(sp?) and sutton foster were crying buring Some Things Are Meant To Be. Sutton was crying during the fire within me. They were all crying at the curtain call. It was amazing. The honored the electrician. There was this kind of irony in the fact that it was raining, and the last song of the show is small umbrella in the rain.
"Don't thank your parents, if you were raised in a nurturing environment you wouldnt be in show business"--Conan O'Brien at the 2006 Emmy Awards
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
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Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:15pm
Wow, I wish I could have been there.
Did you take any pictures?
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
Wishes come true, not free.
Wishes come true, not free.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#7re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:20pm
"There was this kind of irony in the fact that it was raining, and the last song of the show is small umbrella in the rain."
I think that's more of a coincidence than irony.
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Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:22pm
Ummm...nooooo.....why don't you try looking up irony...it's definitley ironic 
i*heart*fame
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/04
#9re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:28pmI actually wanted to take pics, but couldnt because for 1 i have no more room on my camera and i lost the cord to connect it to the computer, and I was with people whom I wouldve gotten in a lot of trouble for taking ht epics
"Don't thank your parents, if you were raised in a nurturing environment you wouldnt be in show business"--Conan O'Brien at the 2006 Emmy Awards
#10re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:38pm
This should not have been a flop musical... I wish I had at least gotten the chance to see it, I was planning on it this summer!
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Bway_Mill_Fan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/03
#11re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:41pmthank you for sharing! im glad i got to see it once :'( its funny you say she was crying during Fire Within Me b.c the lyrics to it go well with the feeling of today for us lw fans :'( any more details? are shows generally covered when they close?
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#12re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:44pmI have a question: are shows generally hard to get tix for for the night they close? I do love a bit of emotion and I really want to go to the last performance of a show (does that make me weird?).
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
Bway_Mill_Fan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/03
#13re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:02pmnot really. i got tickets for LaBoheme on the TKTS booth the day it closed. then again it depends what show it is and if it generally sells out or not
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#14re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:17pm
I just got back, so let's see what I can add. The audience was fantastic, clapping and cheering for nearly everyone when they made their entrance, Maureen got second most and Sutton's seemed to last quite a while. Most songs and scenes also received very loud applause, you can definitely tell there was something special. The cast certainly gave their all-Maureen sounded magnificent and Sutton was great on almost all her songs, though I felt like Astonishing could have been a tad better. Oh well, still great.
I couldn't see expressions and/or if they were crying during most scenes because I was pretty far back, but at curtian call you could tell Maureen had been hysterical and Sutton was pretty red and teared up as she was making her speech, particularly about the electrician who had worked in the business for 46 years and was retiring and LW was his last show.
The stage door for the most part was great. Shortly, I shall start a thread about stage door etiquette and this guy that really pissed me off but anyway...Sutton was out first surprisingly, in a bit of a rush but signed mostly for everyone, she is a real sweetheart. The whole cast minus Maureen McGovern all came out and signed and talked to everyone and stayed for quite a while. Janet Carroll actually when she came out, before she started signing gave everyone at the stage door a quick speech about what a great audience we were and how appreciate she and everyone was of all the fans of the show, really nice. It was my first final show, and it certainly was special. I wish all the luck to the cast in future projects.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
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Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:19pm
wickedrentq..not to threadjack but I LOOOOOVE your avatar
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"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#16re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:22pmI second that on stage door etiquette when i was at Little Women on Friday one girl had three playbills only for herself that she made evryone sign...The worst part was Sutton didn't even come out that night
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#17re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:54pm
being in attendance today was definitley a worthwhile experience.
i'm a big sutton fan, so i have seen the show several times just because of her, but i must say that over time, it has grown on me and i was very sad to see it close today.
the cast was amazing - they each had their small breakdown at one point or another during the course of the show, but this overwhelming emotion is what made the performance today so wonderful. they fed off of each other's raw emotion, and for any of us who have ever performed, i think we can safely say that when a cast is all in the same place emotionally, it feels incredible and in turn, looks incredible to the audience. seeing a cast who love what they do (and clearly each other) so much is so inspiring! 
i've said it before, and i have no problem saying it again - i just can't wait for sutton to be cast in a new show so that we all have the opportunity of seeing her again soon!
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Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:59pmI was there today as well. It was an amazing performance! The cast was on and it was all so sad, this show should have stayed open longer... The energy in the theatre was at a high level, they clapped for almost everything that happened. It was great, it was a show that you really didn't want to miss. I'm happy I went, and I am excited for the tour when it comes out!
MeliMel
Understudy Joined: 6/8/04
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Posted: 5/22/05 at 10:04pmditto on the friday night things. I was standing there with my Astonishing sheet music so I could get signed and I had these grown women behind me elbowing me in the back everytime someone came out. I was really hoping Sutton would come out too, I have seen the show 3 times before and waited around one other time to see if she came out and she never did. I admire her SO SO SO much and her signature was the one I wanted most.Oh well, she still gave an amazing performance sans a few wierd vocal things. Anyways that cast never ceases to amaze me.Maureen put so much into Days of Plenty, it left me speechless. Friday seemed so genuine, there was a whole different vibe that night to me, everything seemed so natural; nothing was forced, every emotion was truely owned and was raw. Everything just... flowed so beautifully. LW was one of my favorite shows, esp since I was hoping to eventually be able to audition for Amy. It honestly wasn't the best of broadway but this is such as shame, the producers lost faith too soon....
The theatre is one of the most expressive and useful instruments for the edification of a country; it is also the barometer which makes its greatness or its descent. A theatre which is sensitive and well oriented in all its branches from tragedy to vaudeville can in a few years change the sensibilty of the people; theatre which has been destroyed, in which cloven hooves take the place of wings, can put to sleep an entire nation. A people that does not aid and encourage its theatre is moribund if not dead; the theatre which does not gather to itself the best of society, of history, the drama of its people and the genuine color of its landscape and its spirit, with laughter or tears, does not deserve to call itself theatre, but rather a place for that horrible thing which is called killing time.- Federico Garcia Lorca
Benzy92
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#20re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 10:09pmi was there and it was BRILLLLLIANT. Sutton and Maureen were incredible!!
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#21re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 10:20pm
"The honored the electrician."
Was he retiring or something? No matter what, they should honor the electricians!
CCM '10!
Bway_Mill_Fan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/03
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
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Posted: 5/22/05 at 10:23pmWas Sutton's the only speech? What exactly did she say?
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
Wishes come true, not free.
Wishes come true, not free.
#24re: LW closing anyone?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 10:29pm
Sutton was like "It's been a great experience and I love working with this cast and crew..."
The electrician has been working on Broadway for 46 years or something like that and he was retiring next month and Little Women was his final production so that's why they brought him out.
It was a great performance..
Everyone was really nice and friendly at the stage door.
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