shows where the marquee went up but never played
shows where the marquee went up but never played
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#1shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 3:31pmI know that mambo kings went up and never played... are there any others?
#2shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 3:38pm
Rebecca
The Baker's Wife
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#2shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 3:41pmDidn't the marquee for Lone Star Love go up?
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#3shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 3:41pm
LONE STAR LOVE
LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART
TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
#4shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 3:47pmAnnie 2: Miss Hanigan's Revenge
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#5shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 3:54pm
It seems to be an extremely rare occurrence. In most cases the producers were confident that the show would come into New York from its out-of-town tryout.
Updated On: 11/1/12 at 03:54 PM
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#7shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 4:40pm
*Not sure if this counts*
The Dunkin Donuts/PRINCE OF BROADWAY billboard went up in times square advertising a Fall 2012 opening, and then it was delayed the morning after it was revealed in Times Square. When I was in the city in June, July, AND September, the PRINCE OF BROADWAY ad was still running.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 4:55pmThe Mambo Kings also had a huge billboard on the side of a building near 42nd and 8th across from port Authority.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#9shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 7:50pmIn the late 1980's I think - SENATOR JOE.
#10shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 7:55pmDidn't Busker's Alley have, if not a billboard, a huge painted sign on the side of a theatre go up?
#11shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 8:02pm
Someone told me once that the maquee went up for Andrew Lloyd Webbers 'Whistle Down The Wind' at the Martin Beck theater (Al Hirschfeld) and was meant to transfer after its try out in Washington, which was directed by Harold Prince.
I don't know if there is any truth in this though?
#12shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 8:04pmWasn't there a marquee for Bobbi Boland?
"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"
Markecib
Featured Actor Joined: 4/13/11
#13shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 8:28pmI think Vanities had a marquee up at the Lyceum, but never opened on Broadway. It did open off-Broadway at Second Stage in 2009.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#14shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 8:33pm
"In the late 1980's I think - SENATOR JOE."
I think SENATOR JOE had a few performances.
"Wasn't there a marquee for Bobbi Boland?"
I know BOBBIE BOLAND had performances - it just didn't open.
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#15shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 11:06pmnow did shows ever sell tickets when these marquees were up?
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#16shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 11:16pm
Paper Moon
The Miracle Worker (starring Hilary Swank)
jeffmiele
Broadway Star Joined: 11/6/07
#17shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/1/12 at 11:18pmDid FAT PIG two years ago put up a billboard? I know they had cover art and promotion materials out.
#18shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/2/12 at 9:20am
Whistle Down the Wind even came up with a poster detailing the theatre, which I still have, won it at a silent auction.
Got Tu Go Disco...or did that play?
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#19shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/2/12 at 10:01amGOT TU GO DISCO definitely played and opened to critics. I witnessed that laughable mess of a musical.
Skywalker3
Stand-by Joined: 5/4/08
#20shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/2/12 at 10:20amThis threat needs pictures!
#21shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/2/12 at 10:23amThis threat DOES need pictures!
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#22shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/2/12 at 10:23am
A few of the aforementioned ...
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#23shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/2/12 at 10:29am
The 2009 revival of BROADWAY BOUND. The production had a double marquee (the image included here); as we now know, BBM opened and BB never played a performance.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#24shows where the marquee went up but never played
Posted: 11/2/12 at 12:17pm
I have the commemorative Playbill from the 50th Annual Tony Awards, the back of which is a full page color ad for the "Newest Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical coming to Broadway - Whistle Down The Wind"
I remember in the 20/20 interview that Walters did with him there were clips from DC with the adage that it would be opening in NY the following year.
