No composer or producer with a right mind would ever invest their own money in a show. Maybe a pay cut. Originally the MAME production thought it could move because the Kennedy Center allowed them to bring the sets, etc in exchange for producing credit/advertising. They found they would still need to raise an additional $5mm or so and couldn't find enough investors . Too many high profile revivals coming up this season for investors to put in their money with too much competition for the Tony. That's usually how they get the angels to bite...the Tony!
EDIT: I know investors don't get Tonys, but a big enough one to get Producing credit might be included on the dias.
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
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Hello Dolly, is currently playing at The Papermill in NJ, virtually sold out, and I think it's time is due. Actually, I'd like to see both Mame and Dolly make it to Broadway this season, and I know it's a stretch, but I'd love to see it happen.
The production of HELLO DOLLY at PPM will absolutely not be coming to Broadway. In fact, Papermill did DOLLY this season, because there are already plans afoot for a Broadway revival, and the regional rights are going to be pulled in the next season or two.
There is already a major Broadway star who is talks for the leading role and the producers who control the Broadway rights have been in talks with a potential directors and designers for their production team.
Tovah ain't going to be playing the Palace this summer or anytime soon...
I'm not going to blab, but it shouldn't be hard to figure out - she is the person most people have suggested for the part, and she's already done two shows created by one of the original Dollys.
Sorry, I guess I just don't considering "blabbing" when one has already gone so far as to discuss the situation in detail. If it's factual, as the info you report always is, it's just a statement.
Thank you for the clues! Glad the poster above me figured it out and also didn't care to give a name. I'll just do a little research, I guess =)