Broadway Shows I've Seen: Five Guys Named Moe (OBC), Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, My Favorite Year (OBC), Guys & Dolls (1992 Revival), Crazy For You (OBC) (Twice), Joesph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1990's Revival), Grease (1990's Revival), Damn Yankees (1990's Revival) Blood Brothers (OBC), Showboat (1990's Revival), Sunset Boulevard (Twice) Beauty & the Beast (OBC), Tommy (OBC), Laughter on the 23rd Floor (OBC) An Inspector Calls, What's Wrong with this Picture (OBC), Falsettos (OBC), Victor/Victoria, H2$ (1990's Revival), Moon Over Buffalo (OBC), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gypsy (Bernadette Peters), Tarzan (OBC), Something Rotten (OBC), Hamilton (OBC), Matilda (Twice), Finding Neverland, Tuck Everlasting (OBC), Wicked, Groundhog Day (OBC), Hello Dolly, A Bronx Tale (OBC), SpongeBob Squarepants (OBC), The Play That Goes Wrong (OBC), Wicked, Once on This Island, Head Over Heels (Opening Night), + A Chirstmas Carol (MSG), Radio City Christmas (Twice)
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Funniest Show Ever - "Save it for the Stage: The Life of Reilly" Charles Nelson Reilly's One Man show (He was also a wonderful man, brilliantly talented and funny as hell on the telephone)
Sauja said: "EllieRose2 said: "Holler If Ya Hear Me did about $150k a week for the month it was open."
And Soul Doctor once had a $110K week for 8 shows. $97K the following week but only 7 shows. Also, I don't know if you'd count it as a musical or, well, even really a show. But Home for the Holidays never broke $100K in the Lunt-Fontanne, and its best week, it made 6.19% of the potential gross.Ken Davenport Aug 1
2018, 12:22:05 AM
Okay talking the "Financial" Hit category, since it's still running, has not recouped, but has not posted a closing notice, then then the fate of OOTI would be categorized as "TBD"
Going with that, do we have a guess as to what the weekly operating costs are on this show?? For playing the Circle in the Square, the grosses aren't bad, and the average ticket price is healthy. If it runs say at least until January 6 and stays north of $500,000 a week, does it h
I am sorry I have no sympathy, if you leave a show at intermission because you think it's over, you are an idiot. Even "Into The Woods". Especially people over 50, You made it to 50 and never went to a show, high school, or later (I know there are some people but the percentage is insignificant).
Huh...I saw it last week in New Haven and it was magnificent. The cast is younger than springtime, but the voices were some of the best I have heard in any show all year. I am not a big fan of SOM but this was by far the best production I have seen of it. Weirdest of all is not sure were you think it looks cheap. The costumes are amazing (Jan Greenwood) The set is very well done for an old school prop and drop style musical, and the lighting is Natasha Katz. Plus the orchestra sounded great.&
Oh see quite to the contrary, I think much of the music is the best part of the show, especially the edits since the cast album. "Get Out and Stay Out" is very powerful in context, and "Shine Like The Sun" is a very nice Act I Ender. Of course putting 9 to 5 to start the show is exaclty correct, and Backwards Barbie also fits very well within the show. It's not a perfect score, but it works well within the show...and it's stronger than a lot of scores of recent flo
The video usage IMO was one of the worst things about the Broadway production. It did not fit with the time period and style of the show. Besides not being excellent, it was horribly overproduced. The show does much better regionally with the work they have done on the script for the tour, and the reduction in "production"
The 1990's tour of Hal Prince SHOWBOAT after it went Non-Equity (Even the set was falling apart)
The 1st National of SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE...Snooze
The Current THE LITTLE MERMAID (not the performers fault but the production..yikes)
On a side note, the fact that MATILDA is even on this list astounds me. I thought the tour was excellent. I thought it was adjusted from Broadway for tour as well as it could be and the Matilda I saw (one of the Can-Tildas) wa
As mentioned "I Got Rhythm" from CRAZY FOR YOU was spectacular, but also "I Can't Be Bothered Now" was just a great old school tap dance
But my favorite is any tapping Gregory Hines did in JELLY'S LAST JAM, "That's How You Jazz" is the one you kind find on video, but he also does a solo Jam near the end of the show that's just brilliant.
DAME said: "approximatura said: "no issue with you not liking what you heard. if that's what you had originally posted, i wouldn't even have logged in. my issue was with you asserting that the show is played by two live musicians and tracks, which is completely untrue, and needed to be corrected."
Thank you apronximatura! I am just a audience member and only go with what I saw and the night we saw it we all seemed to come
SmokeyLady said: "And 70% of the set. All that is up there now is trash.
How do you know it's trash? The new tour has not even gone out yet? Kind of a nasty thing to say when the cast just started rehearsals and the don't play their first performance for a month.
Rumor is that BEAUTIFUL has at least a full year left. It's not on the higher end of weekly cost. Wouldn't be surprised to see it running through December 2018
It's Not? Then when was the last time by your definition was the a "non-union" tour of a musical coming out of New York?
It's Not? Just because "you don't" doesn't mean it's not used, IT IS used whether you like it or not or think its proper or not is fine but saying It's Not is just being arrogant because IT IS
Cast Recording v Soundtrack totally different world...and yes many people say it wrong, but that's mostly b
In this case it really doesn't matter what the English language dictates or what is "technically correct" this simple fact is Non-Union Tour is ABSOLUTELY used to reference Non-Equity tours both internally and externally within the business, including the companies that produce them.
"She's in Love" is the best song of those added for the musical and in the original was adorable with a little boy and the adult sisters. It's just cute (and it's that written that way in the junior). But since they have revised the script since Broadway Flounder is now typically "a teenager" and cast as a young adult male, and it loses it's cuteness factor, plus they changed Flounder from being jealous that his "best friend" is falling in love, t
It's just doesn't transfer to stage well. The script fleshed out from the 90 minute movie becomes very week. Only a few of the new songs are good. The Junior Version is much better...because it's only 75 minutes long. The current tour out is pretty bad, and it's not the performers...it's the show (and I love the film)
You are all pretty and technically all correct on this one.
Yes those tours are non-equity, but employ "other unions" and technically not "non-union"
BUT...
Even internally within these tours themselves, there are often referred to as the "Non-Union" Tour EVEN though they have other unions. The moniker has come to refer to the Equity status only...so Cupcakes for everyone
