Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
#1CarrieFan
Stand-by Joined: 2/5/13
#1Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/5/13 at 8:13pm
Does anybody know what is going in to the following houses this Spring?
Belasco
Booth- will Virginia Woolf last until the Tony's?
Longacre
Marquis
St. James
Where is Bette's new show going?
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#2Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/5/13 at 8:15pmJekyll is at the Marquis. Bette's showing going into the Booth after Virginia Woolf.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#1CarrieFan
Stand-by Joined: 2/5/13
#2Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/5/13 at 8:34pmMy god! Can't believe the rapid response. Thank you so much. Since you told me that Jekyll is going into the Marquis, does that mean Scarlett/Maggie the Cat is staying at the Richard Rogers until Tony time?
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#3Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/5/13 at 8:40pm
It's been stated numerous times that Cat can't extend because of her movie career.
Maybe they'll try to find a replacement or something? Seems like a lot of empty theaters.
Anything going into the Kerr?
#1CarrieFan
Stand-by Joined: 2/5/13
#4Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/5/13 at 8:48pmYes, The Testimate of Mary with Fionna Shaw (April 22nd-June 16th). Fiona plays Mary 30 years after Jesus Christ was crucified. I have several friends in London who have raved about the show.
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
#7Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/6/13 at 11:26amIs the Simon staying empty until Big Fish arrives in the fall?
#8Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/6/13 at 11:28am^^likely. a limited engagement could only fit in their now. They'll likely start loading in in early August.
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.
#1CarrieFan
Stand-by Joined: 2/5/13
#9Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/12/13 at 8:49pmSounds like we might as well and go ahead and cross off one of these theaters as being vacant. I've been talking with others and The Glass Menagerie sounds like it will be on Broadway right before Tony Award cutoff date. Go Cherry!
#10Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/12/13 at 9:02pm
It would be a beautiful fit at the Belasco.
"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
Updated On: 2/12/13 at 09:02 PM
--Aristotle
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#11Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/12/13 at 11:58pmThe Nance is going into the Belasco.
#12Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 12:00am^ No, The Nance is going into the Lyceum.
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#13Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 10:10amHow about Studio 54 after Drood closes in March? Or the Stephen Sondheim? That theatre has been dark since Anything Goes closed last summer.
#14Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 10:16am
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL is going into the Sondheim.
The dark theaters remaining iirc are:
Belasco
Circle in the Square
Longacre
Neil Simon (until BIG FISH)
New Amsterdam (after MARY POPPINS)
Richard Rodgers (after CAT)
Studio 54 (after DROOD)
St. James (after Barry Manilow)
Updated On: 2/13/13 at 10:16 AM
#15Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 12:52pm
And the New Amsterdam will presumably be closed for renovations until ALADDIN.
What do we have coming that has no theatre booked? If we take MENAGERIE as one, then what else is announced? MISS FIRECRACKER? VELOCITY OF AUTUMN?
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#16Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 1:42pmMarch/April normally a show is loaded into every Broadway theater, so worrying a handful are dark, is the economy going off the side of a cliff?
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#17Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 1:44pmStill plenty of time for something else to come in. No more big musicals are opening, so it's pretty easy for a play to swoop in and open on time.
mar6411
Broadway Star Joined: 9/19/09
#18Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 2:30pm
"Still plenty of time for something else to come in."
At what point will all the shows that are opening before the Tony deadline "declare?" At some point, they will need to have contracts signed, theater booked, announcements made and tickets on sale. About when is that point?
I thought I had a pretty good idea of what was coming and now I see that Glass Menagerie is on the radar. And when do Miss Firecracker and Velocity of Autumn need to announce?
I always wonder about this for spring. Just curious.
#19Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 3:59pmI think this will be the first spring in ages where we see several houses dark. The Simon & New Amsterdam are basically booked, but will still be empty(I still think Poppins should have wait a few more months before closing). Circle in the Square just lost their booking for the spring, so I doubt anything last minute will book that theater. And I doubt any kind of play will book the St. James. Simply too big. I still wish Roundabout would revive Dancin', even for just a 3 month limited run at Studio 54.
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.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#20Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 7:25pmIf Roundabout was smart, they should have opened Drood now-ish, and let it run through the Tonys. It's bound to win the Best Revival Tony since there isn't anything else going on, right? But instead they'll have a dark theater.
#21Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 8:30pmI think ANNIE is the only other revival this season.
#22Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 9:08pmPippin & Jekyll & Hyde are both revivals.
#23Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 9:24pmCINDERELLA will be deemed a revival.
"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
--Aristotle
#24Vacant Broadway Houses as of this Spring?
Posted: 2/13/13 at 9:26pmWow, I need to stop drinking.
