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Phantom to Close On Broadway
#25re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:51pm
re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted On: 7/16/08 at 09:20:13 PM
Again, it is a JOKE!!! No need to get your panties in a twist!!
wicked_beast4,
We ALL understood what you meant the first time. No point in...
What great ones do the less will prattle of
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#26re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:53pmOMG - bryan/theatre2 made a post NOT RELATED TO CAST RECORDINGS OF FLOPS!
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#27re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:53pm
Aww, but BFB, beating it is half the fun!!!!!!!! Haha, I am very hypocritical.
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
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#28re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:53pmPhew. Some of you people must be a real mess on April Fool's Day. Don't you have any sense of humor at all? Sure the title was meant to get a rise out of people. It sure as hell worked, didn't it? Why get so emotionally distraught over it because you were "caught" by it?
#29re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:56pm
I'm sending wicked_beast4 a big ol' basket of kisses.
What great ones do the less will prattle of
Updated On: 7/16/08 at 09:56 PM
Chance
Broadway Star Joined: 7/16/08
#32re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:28pm
As i've said before- stupid little kids who know nothing about the theatre! Ban all under 18s cos they know nothing!
Someone change Betsy Wetsy's diaper
#33re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:36pmYou mean Pappy's Crappie Nappie.
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
#34re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:54pmWill Cammack call it a "revival" when it reopens? *eye roll*
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#35re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:16am
My Oh My, if your making a comment about how you don't consider Les Miserables to have had a revival your wrong. There is no rule that says that a revival has to be a re imangied version of the show in any way. Sure some of them are. Technically all a a show has to have in order to be considered a revival is a period of 3 or more years between the revival production and the original. Les Miserables had 3 years and only 3 years so by technical standings it was a revival.
I remember reading in the West End forum when this was going on in London that there were tourists who had thought that the show was closing forever in London. As if their eyes stopped reading the article after the words "Phantom Closing" and didn't see the part were it was for 4 days to re do the sound system and thus tickets sold like hotcakes. I wonder if the same thing would happen on Broadway. That tourists would hear that it is closing think it is forever and tickets would go like mad.
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#36re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/17/08 at 2:58am
haha... when I saw this thread I went "it's about time..." ;P
not that there's anything wrong with Phantom (well, I mean, I'm not a fan... but I don't want to start anything, haha) ... there's just something wrong with it running for... what is it now, 20 years? o_o
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#37re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/17/08 at 10:34amLes Mis wasn't a revival? Since when? Isn't a revival by definition something that you bring back? I agree with winston. If it was to be considered a special engagement, wouldn't the run have been MUCH shorter?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#38re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/17/08 at 10:43amTo actually answer the OP's question. RENT closed for a week a few years ago to redo the sound system at the Nederlander. So this isn't precedent-setting.
#38re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:15pmI loved the title for the thread. It does catch your attention.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#39re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:20pm
Millie,
As far as My oh my is concerned I think that he/she feels like Les Miserables didn't have a revival becuase it was the same production that played on Broadway only three years prior.
But, I do remember Rent closing to make room for a new sound system.
"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"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#40re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/17/08 at 2:34pm
"As far as My oh my is concerned I think that he/she feels like Les Miserables didn't have a revival becuase it was the same production that played on Broadway only three years prior."
Furthermore, it closed, then opened a few years later. Chorus Line did the same thing, except the time gap between their closing and revial opening was much longer. And it wasn't completely new and reworked.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Updated On: 7/17/08 at 02:34 PM
#41re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/18/08 at 1:45am
Winston, you're absolutely wrong. Of course Les Mis had an actual revival. To assume I meant I don't believe it did based on sets, is quite silly.
I recall when me and other Les Mis fans first heard of it, we were under the impression that it was only an extended tour stop of the 3rd national tour. And when they officially starting calling it a revival, I felt it was a marketing ploy. Along with the lure of revamped orchestrations, I thought it was just another one of Cammacks little tricks to stir curiosity and get more people to buy tix.
Of course today I acknowledge it as a revival by definition, but at the time, it was almost too incredible to believe they'd bring the show back so quickly and, like I mentioned before, I was almost certain it was an extended tour stop...hence the joke about Phantom being billed as a revival after the 4 day closure by the business savvy Mackintosh.
Anyway, ahhh, I'm late. Gotta go catch a plane!
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
#42re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/19/08 at 1:01am
Ooph, what an emotional roller coaster ride on my young heart. YAY! no.
YOU GOT ME! I've always wanted to be punked.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#43re: Phantom to Close On Broadway
Posted: 7/19/08 at 1:14am
My Oh My,
The thing is is that the revival was never announced as an exteded tour stop. The only articles that had anything to do with the tour and the revival were ones that had said that they were closing the tour to bring all the sets to NY. Not that the production at the Broadhurst was part of the tour.
"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"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
