CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Team BWW Joined: 12/31/69
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#3CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 10:09amI'm sad about this because I really like Chaplin and thought it was very well done.
#4CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 10:14am
If you could only have convinced 200,000 other people, mac, it might have returned its investment...
Personally, I found nothing redeeming in the material, although McClure deserves some commendation for working like a horse to try to give the show a semblance of life.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#6CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 10:22amWhat'cha gonna do when the show falls down
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#7CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 11:09amIt's grosses were not very good even on Thanksgiving week.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#8CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 11:10amAw, I loved Chaplin.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#10CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 11:52amIt had a decent run. I liked it, especially Rob McClure, but the book and lyrics were seriously flawed.
#11CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 12:11pmFor those who liked it: a cast recording has been made, a tour has been announced (though we'll see if it actually comes to fruition), and there will likely be many regional/amateur productions in the future. As uninspiring as I found it, I imagine it will have a life after Broadway.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#12CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 12:11pmScandalous should be next, there's no reason this show should still be playing.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#13CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 12:46pmI imagine the show had a big fall in attendance this week and see the show as gone past the point of no return.
theobsessed
Swing Joined: 5/3/12
#14CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 12:50pmThat's just a shame. I hope it gets remembered come TONY season (I expect at least Rob McClure will be nominated), but it's always sad to see a show as cool as this close. I never got to see it (one of the many inconveniences of living in the south)but from the clips I saw it was really something special.
#15CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 1:09pmHow is the news of a show closing, shared with the cast and staff? I've sometimes wondered about that. Best of luck to the cast of Chaplin. from RC in Austin, Texas
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#16CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 2:06pmI have heard of mean ways (e-mails just before performances) and nice (if nice is possible - the producers sitting down after a Sunday show, and telling the cast and staff in person and with humanity).
Markecib
Featured Actor Joined: 4/13/11
#17CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 2:42pm
Usually it's a meeting with the cast and producers at half hour. Not the greatest way as they cast has to do a show right after they were told it's closing.
Wish I got to see this show, but nothing really compelled me to see it.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#18CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 3:28pmI don't understand how Chaplin is closing and Scandalous is still running. Chaplin had far better attendance and per ticket average. KLG cannot be bankrolling it on her own...
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#19CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 3:38pmAnother good show bites the dust. You have to have a death wish to invest in Broadway.
Poster Emeritus
#20CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 4:19pmI've heard the cast recoding and it's wonderful too. It's being released digitally tonight.
frankywhitley
Chorus Member Joined: 10/29/12
#21CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 4:32pmwhy is this closing and scandalous is still open? wtf.
#22CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 4:37pm
Because Scandalous has the $$ of a big church behind it, and all Chaplin has is independent investors who put a bit of money into this show despite the fact that it's never received anything but bad notices in its prior incarnations, leaving one to wonder if those investors can't read or were just seeking a (finite) tax write-off.
Short form: Chaplin's investors are finished with their show; Scandalous' aren't yet.
#23CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 4:42pm^They're not finished. They do plan to tour it, but not until 2014 which makes me think it'll end up being on of those tours that gets announced and never materializes.
#24CHAPLIN to Close on Broadway January 6
Posted: 12/3/12 at 7:49pm
"I have heard of mean ways (e-mails just before performances) and nice (if nice is possible - the producers sitting down after a Sunday show, and telling the cast and staff in person and with humanity)."
I know of one ensemble member who was on vacation when her show posted a closing notice so she found out via facebook newsfeed
