PatrickDC said: "The 5th Avenue has posted thePlaybillfor Mrs Doubtfire. Interesting that Rob isn’t given better billing. He’s listed alphabetically with the rest of the cast.I assume that’s just for the out-of-town andhe’ll be more prominent when it opens on Broadway."
I wouldn't make to much of the billing for Seattle--this run may be contracted under
I saw the 1988 tour with Jean Stapleton at the Muny in St Louis with 10,000 seats--I have no remembrance of how the voting was handled, but it must have been by guessing how the audience was voting.
Good cast also featuring Clive Revill, Jana Schneider, Mark Jacoby, Ronn Carroll, John Deluca, Paige O'Hara and Kathleen Marshall in the ensemble.
While this is sad for the cast, the show could have closed near the end of last summer. Thanks to luck and the marketing, the show has picked up and they now have steady work at least until the beginning of June.
I think the producers of the show handled this as well as they could have. By announcing the closing now they hopefully will create a sense of urgency to see the show (and they have also skillfully used the closing notice for another round of free publicity--I love the &qu
I know a lot, if not most, non-equity tours do this, but I haven't seen a lot of equity tours do this. I can't think of an equity tour that's done this in the past few years."
The current Jersey Boys tour is still equity and doing a crazy schedule of many one night stands
this most be a 4-wall deal with the Shuberts--i'm sure netflix has negotiated a set weekly payment for rental as well as covering all the union costs related to the showings--probably the reason for only 8 showings a week and one dark night--the gross is totally immaterial with netflix probably giving away many (?most) of the tickets to awards voters.
I wonder if the movie will screen on 35MM film or if it will be 4K digital projection--both would need to be installed (as well
Sad for the new cast members to have to start the 2nd year of the tour at such a strange/non-conforming theatre. And then the move to the huge barn in St Louis next week. (For those familiar with the Kansas City theatre--it looks like it has a full fly house (and the full stage is covered), but where is the orchestra?
I remember hearing that The Mystery of Edwin Drood changed its name to move it up in the NY Times abc's (paid alphabetical listing of Broadway shows)(kind of a quaint idea today).
Wasn't the musical Sugar renamed Some Like It Hot the Musical for the Tony Curtis tour/revival?
according to this 2013 NY Times article, the two lead producers get a free Tony Award and the other producers have to buy one for $2,500. I'm not sure if the specifics have change since then.
Way to many variables: length of the show, how draining the performance is, the weather, how close you live, do you need a pick me up from the stage door crowd, what do you want to eat, are people you like (or don't like) around the theatre.
Impossible2 said: "Honestly has there ever been another Hamilton?
I would think the opening of Phantom of the Opera would be the closest. Like Hamilton it created interest far beyond the usual Broadway show. (Just like Hamilton made Lin-Manuell Miranda internationally known, Phantom did the same for Andrew Lloyd Webber, an even more amazing achievement for an non-performer who never really jumped off the page.) The finances were different in the days be
Jarethan said: "You couldn't call the theatre. If you ever got through (which you actually could do), they told you to send a note asking for the performance / date / seating area you wanted, a check, and a self-addressed envelope which they used to mail your tickets. Not kidding. I imagine you still got your tickets if you didn't, but who wanted to take a chance.
I feel so old--for my first visit to Broadway, I remember sending a letter to the box office with the
Carol Channing was billed alone over the title, Robert Morse just under the title with the "and" credit going to "Gene Detroy and the Marquis Chimps" with 14 "Sugar Babies" (I think same number as Broadway)
Carol lead the opening a Memory of Burlesque (Micky did on Broadway)
Robert Morse was first featured in Meet Me Round the Corner
Tom5 said: "A good variation to this question might be who was the Biggest Star that stayed with a production the longest?"
I know that productions played much shorter runs than today, but didn't Ethel Merman perform the full runs of all the roles she originated on Broadway including a very long run in Annie Get Your Gun.
Now is just not the time to launch a Michael Jackson musical.
Maybe Lynn Nottage should instead write a serious drama about an author trying to figure out how to write a play about a very famous performer who's controversies won't go away but who's artistic achievements are still loved--seems a better use of her talents than a musical that has to be interrupted by another hit song every 3 minutes.
But also remember, Michael Jackson's particular private
HogansHero said: "@vampire no. what's in the papers is just a projection. investing in a show is like getting on a boat and sailing into a pitch black cave, hoping that it doesn't spring a leak. "
Such a brilliant way to put it. (a single script change can cause a ensemble quick change and explode the wardrobe weekly cost, a cast change adds to the cost--actually all
I have a soft spot for Grab Me a Gondola, a 1956 West End hit that ran 673 performances but is now largely forgotten. Not necessarily a great musical but so much fun. How can you not love a production number extolling the virtues of mink bikinis or the shapely film starlet who's "Cravin for the Avon".
As Hogan stated, there are many additional expenses related to a tour, but other items are less than New York's high cost of everything. (for example a lower cost SET Equity contract vs Production Contract on Broadway).
zainmax--the weekly guarantee for a tour usually is less than the shows broadway breakeven--but that is only the amount the local presenter guarantees to the show itself before all the local costs, which can huge (and vary greatly from
Anyone know Forbes' source for road grosses? I haven't noticed them published regularly since variety stopped reporting them in 2012.
Wonder just how massive the Hamilton road grosses are when they play mega-houses like the Fox in St Louis and Atlanta? In the old days there would have been congratulation ads and news releases, but with what I'm sure are massive numbers maybe its an embarrassment of riches (literally).
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