It should last as long as Sting is in it. What kind of bump it gets from this & The Kennedy center exposure will not be known for awhile. It depends on how deep the producers pockets are and how much they will support the show.
Unfortunately, when I saw the show at it's first preview on Broadway, I did not care for it. However, my friend and I have decided that Sting in his own show is an "event," so we are giving the show a second chance. We shall see!
Thank you Re: La Strada. I own the window card signed by Bernadette Peters and it is hanging on my wall as one of my most treasured pieces of theater memorobilia.
The verdict is out on this one...STING starts this week for 4 weeks so we shall see if people want to see him or will the ship sink once he leaves in Jan? Box office the past week was at 58.7% capacity that's an average of 792 seats a night in a house that seats 1349...ugh!?
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
Sting will certainly give the show a boost but if you check the Ticketmaster site for Jan., it looks like there will be more people on stage than in the audience. When he goes....so does the show.
Okay, I have succumbed as well! I hadn't seen it, but a fan of Sting from Police days to the present, so this seemed like the thing to do...see y'all in the TDF seats on Wednesday
Isherwood seems to have upped his opinion of the show:
Although it has its flaws, primarily in the somewhat tangled book, “The Last Ship” remains a musically entrancing show performed with grit and passion by an excellent cast. Why audiences haven’t warmed to it may have more to do with the narrowing of the Broadway audience’s tastes than anything else. An original musical with no familiar brand to exploit — particularly a show that doesn’t sell peppy uplift — has now become a quixotic, against-the-odds endeavor. This adds another layer of strange, sad symbolism to the central image of the show, that mighty vessel headed nowhere.