How Is Scandalous Still Running?
How Is Scandalous Still Running?
eperkins
Broadway Star Joined: 5/21/07
#1How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 3:15pmI don't know what their weekly expenses are, but the Scandalous weekly grosses surely must be well below their nut. Their highest gross so far - back in October - was $241,613. I wonder why they are keeping it running? They must be burning through whatever reserve they have. I'm glad for the actors though.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#2How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 3:21pmI wouldn't be surprised if the 4square church was funneling cash into it.
#3How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 3:24pm
Never underestimate what fanatical, religious people will do (or finance) when they think it's "God's will"
"I shall stay until the wind changes."
#4How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 3:43pmIt's going to close Sunday.
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
Quiche2
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/12
#5How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 3:45pm
^^
Source?
Theatre is my life. No one can take that away from me.
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#6How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 3:59pmLike other religeous institutions, they wouold rather flush all that money down the toilet rather than using it for a good cause. They probably think it is a great musical! I read on another site that Krazy Kathie Lee on her tv show, compared her ****fest to other musicals that got bad reviews like Les Miz and Camelot!
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#7How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 4:14pmLOL so true at that thread title. It's a thought that crosses my mind every single day.
eperkins
Broadway Star Joined: 5/21/07
#8How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 4:24pmAnd I'm not even talking about the lack of artistic merits. I just asking from a financial perspective!
#9How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 4:24pmS.C.I.E.N.T.O.L.O.G.Y. Check out the David Pomeranz page on Wikipedia.
"It's not where you start, it's where you finish!"
#10How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 5:00pmEvic, she made the comparison tbis morning on her show. She seems to realize and have accepted the bad reviews. The "comparion" was just her and Hoda talking about other shows that goot bad reviews but did well.
Just give the world Love.
#11How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 5:01pmMy source is 1 degree away from the production
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
Rainbowhigh23
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/12
#13How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 5:39pm
"The trouble with trouble is you don't know you in trouble till you in trouble." Roz from Amen.
I hope the show don't close. I got tickets for December 7!!
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#14How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 5:42pm
I don't think Drunkie Lee got so rich by being stupid enough to invest in her own show. That's Taboo, right?
But talking a church out of some loaves,she'd be good at that.
#15How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 5:42pm
12 shows made over $1,000,000.00 last week.
Then there's this:
Meanwhile, turkey time had a very different meaning for the producers of Scandalous, the new musical biography of Aimee Semple McPherson with book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford. In its first full week since its Nov. 15 opening, the show scraped up a thin gruel of $194,511, less than 16 percent of its potential gross, and played to houses that were only 30.6 percent full. Even a presidential pardon is unlikely to save this one.
Link
....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 11/26/12 at 05:42 PM
#16How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 6:16pmShe should've researched how god-themed musicals do on Broadway, before spending her time, money or someone else's money into this mess. Sister Act, Godspell, Leap of Faith, Jesus Christ Superstar...all flopped last year! Duhhh.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#17How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 6:40pmHopefully Carmellos performance will be remembered @Tony time.
Poster Emeritus
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#18How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 6:42pmFor her sake I hope it is totally forgotten.
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
#19How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 6:52pmI disagree. I think Carolee Carmello's performance in this should be remembered despite the poor reception the show received. I still think Kathie Lee may fund a cast recording herself. She produced the cast recording for her last musical.
#20How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 7:11pmThey made a recording of Under the Bridge?
....but the world goes 'round
Quiche2
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/12
#21How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 7:15pmKnowing the $$$$ that Kathie Lee has, she will self-fund a cast recording. I'm 99.9% sure of that.
Theatre is my life. No one can take that away from me.
#22How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 7:31pm
I can't imagine how they will not post closing notice tomorrow for Sunday of this week. Unless that FourSquare church really is crazy enough to funnel money in, and then I just feel bad for their parishioners who give money for crap like that (... actually wait, I already feel bad for their parishioners, but that's another story).
I would imagine Kathie Lee will fund a cast recording. I don't see this NOT getting an album.
However, I'm in the minority regarding Carolee - I think maybe with a better director and a better script (and a better sound designer), a performance could have been shaped here. But I found her exhausting to watch --- I don't fault her at all, but I don't think that a Tony nomination is warranted just for keeping the curtain up on a terrible show. Her performance has very little nuance, and the sound designer should be shot for the way he amplified her (already strident) voice to be literally painful to listen to.
#23How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 8:23pm^ I agree about Carolee. I'm a big fan of hers (she's the only reason I saw the show) but the material is so bad, she's practically embarrassing herself on stage.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
jbm2
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/11
#24How Is Scandalous Still Running?
Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:24pmKLG is not producing this show. She wrote it. She has not invested ANY money into this production and has no plans to, that includes funding the cast album.
