So, in the spirit of 'Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?,' let's put up some closing notices.
The wheels are coming off the dream at 'Ragtime.'
The producers of the $8.5 million revival were huddled in meetings yesterday analyzing their ticket sales. They emerged with faces as grim as Jacob Marley's.
Officially, the producers say, 'there are no plans to close at this time.' Unofficially, it's likely to close Jan. 3 at a total loss, several production sources say.
Despite some good reviews, the show 'just hasn't caught on,' one source says..."
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
The Times piece on Thanksgiving paints a fairly grim picture of the winter future of any show lacking stars. RAGTIME doesn't (yet?) work as a "brand" show, or a classic (WEST SIDE STORY) there's no urgency to see it, since high schools and summer theaters have performed it often since it first closed. One might say it's back too soon, but the problem is more complicated. RAGTIME doesn't come with alarge, ready-made audience of folks dying to see it re-tought, and with prices as steep as they are, it's probably always going to be a hardsell. People who miss star performers forget by the way that neither Audra (despite CAROUSEL following) nor Brian were stars when the show first opened. It was always an ensemble show.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
And, of course, he had to make a bitchy comment about the show itself.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
Considering their recent grosses it's not that surprising, but it is a shame. It's such a wonderful production of a great show.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
I think the more interesting part of this article is his comments towards the bottom about Roundabout now being the fourth Broadway landlord now that it has a third theater.
HOW DISAPPOINTING!! This was at the top of my list of shows to see when I go to NYC in March!! GRRRRRRRRR
"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
CPD, while the cast is largely unknown regional theater actors, I didn't find it it "boring" or a "slog." I genuinely enjoyed it. However, it's all a matter of perspective.
With that, I really hope it doesn't close this quickly. It deserves a longer life than that.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
I was torn between this and Finian's as to what to get my mom for Christmas. Guess my decision has been made for me.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
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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