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BROADWAY CLOSINGS - can you call it? What's next to go?
#275BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/8/12 at 4:29pmThat's ridiculous. Adding an understudy role to an ensemble contract is not that expensive. They wouldn't save much, at least not enough to keep the show running. MARY POPPINS has great weeks and then they have not-as-good weeks. They're fine. Pending the box office that moves to MATILDA and ANNIE, MARY POPPINS could probably make it another 1-2 years and be just fine. Knowing Disney, however, they already know when they plan to close it, and when they plan to open a new show at the New Amsterdam.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Quiche2
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/12
#276BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/9/12 at 3:31pmI definitely know that POPPINS won't close until another Disney show is announced. I haven't heard anything about ALADDIN lately, so let's see how that goes. If ALADDIN ever shows up, POPPINS will be on the top of the closings list.
Theatre is my life. No one can take that away from me.
corkystclair2
Chorus Member Joined: 9/25/10
#277BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/9/12 at 7:49pmDon't forget (if this hasn't already been said) that Disney owns (has a long-term control over) the New Am. The finances of a Disney show in that Disney house are different from a show in a house where theater rental is a big line item.
#278BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/9/12 at 8:01pmNot to add more fuel to the MARY POPPINS conversation, but about 15 dates over the next month just popped up on TDF (including a bunch of weekend performances).
JohnyBroadway
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/12
#279BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/9/12 at 10:02pmIt would be foolish of Disney to close a show in their own theatre if they didn't have a project in place. They don't have anything to lose.
JohnyBroadway
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/12
#280BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/9/12 at 10:02pmIt would be foolish of Disney to close a show in their own theatre if they didn't have a project in place. They don't have anything to lose.
Celra1
Understudy Joined: 9/17/12
#281BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/9/12 at 10:32pmwicked JUST because those bastards made RENT close. ;(
broadwayworldreader
Stand-by Joined: 7/6/09
#282BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/9/12 at 10:50pm
Let's give Mary Poppins, for argument's sake, 1 more year. Is it not unrealistic for Disney to move Lion King back to the New Am? We haven't heard much in the way of Disney developing projects aside from, as of late, Dumbo and Aladdin. From the lack of buzz, I'd say Dumbo sounds like it's still in developmental stages and I've heard through the grape vine that the Disney office genuinely had no plans for a Broadway future for Aladdin when Menken announced it.
I figure it's plausible seeing as having to fill 2 of the larger theatres on broadway is challenging enough. Why doesn't Disney cut there losses, stick with the one they actually own, and rent smaller houses for their other properties?
#283BROADWAY CLOSINGS - call it!
Posted: 10/9/12 at 10:56pm
Scandolous.
eta…..exactly!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
Updated On: 10/9/12 at 10:56 PM
