Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#1Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 4/16/14 at 9:30amI just read in the New York Times, that "The Flick" was making an off Broadway return after having won the Pulitzer. The theatre that they announced that the show was going to was The Barrow Street. Now, I'm aware that if a show has posted a closing notice in one theatre, then it's okay for the following show to announce that they are playing the same space. But, I haven't heard of any closing notice for Buyer and Cellar, could I have possibly missed something?
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
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#2Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 4/16/14 at 10:29am
Did you miss this part?
"The timing of the transfer is to be determined: The hit play “Buyer & Cellar” is now running at Barrow Street, with tickets on sale through the end of August."
There is no indication when this is happening. If Barrett Foa moves a lot of tickets, then who knows if they'll sell past August. Although, he may not be able to stay longer if he has TV commitments (I don't watch his show, so I apologize if I'm unaware if his character recently met a tragic end, etc., heh).
#2Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 4/16/14 at 12:34pmI imagine Barrett Foa will be doing a summer engagement only, since he's on a television show that shoots in LA. My guess would be that the show closes in August and THE FLICK comes in this fall.
"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
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#3Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 4/16/14 at 5:43pmKind of surprised one of the Broadway non-profits wouldn't bring it on board for a few months. Get a new younger/hip crowd in.
#4Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 4/16/14 at 5:46pm
Kind of surprised one of the Broadway non-profits wouldn't bring it on board for a few months. Get a new younger/hip crowd in.
Are you referring to BUYER & CELLAR? I don't think the kids these days are really into plays about Barbra's imagined employees.
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
#5Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 4/16/14 at 5:55pm
^That's what you think! I just wore my Barbra shirt to DC the other day and had a whole bunch of older women smiling at me. Which was really funny/awkward because I'm a 23 year old woman.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#6Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 4/16/14 at 6:03pmHa! No, I meant "The Flick." It's got that hipster crowd, and it's something new for Broadway.
#8Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 6/12/14 at 8:15pmBuyer and Cellar closing July 27. Finally got around to seeing last week, with Barrett Foa, and I loved it. Foa was just so warm and funny and adorable. And the play itself is just so good. Definitely going to see the last performance.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#9Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 6/12/14 at 10:33pmGlad it's coming to San Francisco so I can see it again. Anybody know what the budget was or if it recouped/will recoup?
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#10Is Buyer and Cellar closing?
Posted: 6/12/14 at 10:36pm
From the NY Times in September 2013:
"The critically acclaimed play “Buyer & Cellar,” an Off Broadway show starring Michael Urie (“Ugly Betty”) as a struggling actor who goes to work for Barbra Streisand, recouped its $500,000 capitalization in just nine weeks of performances at the Barrow Street Theater, the producers announced Thursday."
