PRIVATE LIVES is closing early...

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 6:56pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/PRIVATE-LIVES-Cut-Short-Show-to-Close-December-31-20111213

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 7:00pm

Oh dear!

[RippedMan]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 7:13pm

Sorry, Kim. Another miss.

[pat_NYborn]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 7:28pm

Really Upset about this!! was planning to see it first week in january! sure hope I can get this in before its too late!

[fflagg]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 7:59pm

The basic problems:

1. Kim is not as "big" a star as she thinks/is promoted
2. the sets are cheap-looking
3. the play is too long and should be edited down; sorry, Sir Noel

[musicman_bwayfan]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 8:02pm

fflagg: I completely agree with #3. When I saw the show just before Thanksgiving, the show started on time, act 1 was about 40-45 minutes, the intermission was cut short to 10 minutes, and then the play was over about 100 minutes later. I think that there should have been two 10 minute intermissions to make it a little easier to deal with.

Has anyone there recently seen a merchandise table with posters? When I went, they hadn't received anything yet.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 9:42pm

Ouch...

I was just looking at the grosses and wondering about the longevity. Glad I have my tickest for the 26th.

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 9:51pm

Dammit! I was waiting to see this until January and now I won't get the chance.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 9:59pm

And now I'm really boggled they refused to have rush. Eh. At least I got my Paul Gross fix before it was too late.

[musicman_bwayfan]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 10:03pm

PLUM, it's been on TDF almost every day of the run.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 10:04pm

Not the same thing as rush. Especially when you're not a student anymore. :)

[musicman_bwayfan]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 10:07pm

The tickets were only a few bucks more than what a student rush price would have been and I had a rear but center aisle orchestra seat. It's a small theater so it wasn't bad at all

[Plum]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 10:21pm

Rear orchestra was what, $60? That's...not rush price. Anyway, it's a moot point; it's not like rush would have helped them very much. Updated On: 12/13/11 at 10:21 PM

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 10:35pm

Plum, they were referring to the TDF ticket price verus what a rush ticket would have cost.

[After Eight]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 11:01pm

It's too bad. I thought it was a good production. I thought Kim Cattrell would have sold more tickets.

But the main problem here, as with Gypsy, is that the play has been revived too often.

[thismyshow]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 11:40pm

while now I think other things should have gone first, back in september I actually said to a friend "I just have a feeling Private Lives will be the first thing to close early this season" just grabbed a ticket for the 21st

[musicman_bwayfan]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 5:37am

Plum, I paid $36 for my TDF ticket for Rear Orchestra...not $60

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 6:16am

LOTS of people can get TDF memberships. I haven't been a student for 20 years. I use TDF all the time.

[AC126748]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 11:06am

It wasn't a very good production, and certainly unnecessary after the fantastic production with Rickman and Duncan less than ten years ago. Cattrall was miscast and working way too hard. Shirley Phelps and Ricky Martin would have better chemistry than she and Gross. It was a miss all around.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 11:25am

FYI: anyone can use TDF, if you can write. Here's how:
Stagegrade deals

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 11:38am

I agree with AC. Not saying that's the reason the show hasn't done well, but with so many great elements adding up to a whole less than sum of its parts (does that phrasing even make sense) and the tepid response the audience gave -- at least the night I was there -- it's not surprising that word-of-mouth hasn't exactly propelled it.