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SamanthaCH said: "It's a shame that The View doesn't promote Broadway as much as they used to. We hardly see any musicals performing on the show.

I always enjoy it when they have Broadway guests though. I've also noticed that Sunny Hostin is an avid theatre-goer! Whenever a guest (specially actors in straight plays) comes to the show, she's seen the production."

This is likely due to The View now being run/considered 

The biggest show Whoopi has ever gone out on a limb for was the 2009 revival of Ragtime. If I remember the story correctly the production was bleeding money, and despite being a bare-bones production. Any production Ragtime though, will  be on the more expensive side of running costs. It didn’t help the show opened just as the recession hit. Whoopi fell such in love with the production she invited them on the View, but the producers couldn’t afford to pay the ca

a-mad said: "Pretty Woman appears to have a solid start for two performances. Frozen may still be re-selling a lot of tickets at a cheaper rate, but they've been over $2 million for several weeks now, so maybe its not the disaster some make it out to be. By this point in their runs both Little Mermaid and Tarzan were showing definite signs of weakness."

Frozen’s initial pre-opening ticket block was through August, so we’ll truly start to see if its a

Smaxie said: ">The longest run at the Lyceum was The Gold Diggers which ran from September of 1919 to June of 1921. These two points alone show how undesirable the Lyceum is for most productions.It should be noted that with its extension The Play that Goes Wrong will be officially the longest running production at the Lyceaum by 17 days, so congrats again to the show for breaking a nearly 100 year old record.<

The longest run at the Lyceum was the original production

If I had to bet the August closing was an agreement between the producers and the Shubert Organization as grosses were waning on a show that been riding the edge of profitability each week for most of its run, and the was an assumption that something else was in the pipeline to open at the Lyceum come Fall. 

If I had to put my finger on it the unexpectedly early announcement of A Bronx Tales closure for August 5th, on June 27th, when most expected it to close up

I think the real question is where is this going? Its a one woman show with, although I love her to death, a No Name outside of the Broadway community. Yes its a parody of one of the most well know Christmas stories in American history, but will that be able to sell 1000+ tickets at over $100 a pop for 2 months?  All off the smaller play houses are booked through January. The smallest house that will be open come fall is The Lyceum which is not the best for foot traffic in

Does any think this leak has anything to do with many in the Broadway community still being salty Ambrose (A B-list TV Star at best, who hasn't been relevant in at least 10 years, let alone worked in 10 years) was gifted the role of Elisa over a Broadway star in the role of a lifetime? Laura Benanti's attitude in her Year In Review video about the revival seemed genuine. Ambrose gives a great, but not must see performance only fueling the fire of "They Cast Who as

PatrickDC said: "And why is AKB's real age even coming into the discussion?It's not as if he's the first actor to play a character well beyond his actual age. Heck, I'm just jealous of guys like AKB, Telly, and half the cast of Newsies that can pass for characters half their age! LOL"

 It does because he may look younger when playing against people who are around his age, but when you are a 31 year old whose supposed to be "17" playing