Tuck Everlasting Postponed?- Page 2
Tuck Everlasting Postponed?
#25Tuck Everlasting Postponed?
Posted: 4/11/13 at 9:08pm
"Lack of a theatre" is a laughable excuse. Yes, there are dozens of shows that want a Broadway home in the 2013-2014 season. And EVERY year, shows open, shows close, and new shows open. THIS FAR OUT announcing "I can't get a theatre!" is a press release disguised as a "cry for help." It's a tactic to try and build a buzz of "disappointment" that the show won't be coming in from its "fans" and supporters so that they can have some sort of leverage in negotiating later.
"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
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#26Tuck Everlasting Postponed?
Posted: 4/11/13 at 9:08pm^ for a leading role in a show he has been working on for years.
#27Tuck Everlasting Postponed?
Posted: 4/11/13 at 11:25pmWas thinking the same thing about AKB. Of course he wanted to join Tuck, he had the lead in a new musical, which was probably more exciting for him that his steady paycheck. Wonder if Disney would take him back in Newsies? Or maybe he'll just wind up in the original company of Aladdin.
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#28Tuck Everlasting Postponed?
Posted: 4/12/13 at 3:17am
In this case, lack of theatre availability is a legitimate excuse. All you have to do is look at the Broadway Real Estate section of Playbill:
http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/134444-Broadway-Real-Estate
Tuck Everlasting is probably a good-sized show. I'm guessing a cast of 18-20, if not more. That means that they'll likely need a theatre that's at least 1200 seats to make the financials work. So what theatres are those? Well there's the...
Broadhurst - (no officially announced show yet for the fall)
August Wilson - Jersey Boys
Nederlander - Newsies
Rodgers - (no announced show yet for the fall)
Neil Simon - Big Fish
Imperial - Nice Work
Hirschfeld - Kinky Boots
Shubert - Matilda
Winter Garden - Mamma Mia
Lunt-Fontanne - Motown
Majestic - Phantom
Marquis - (being renovated)
New Amsterdam - Disney - Aladdin
Minskoff - Lion King
St. James - (no announced show yet for the fall)
Palace - Annie
Broadway - Cinderella
Foxwoods - Spider-man
Gershwin - Wicked
Rest assured that none of the shows listed above are closing this year. Which leaves Tuck Everlasting only 3 possible theatres: the Broadhurst, Rodgers and St. James. But wait, If/Then has been announced as opening in March 2014 at a Nederlander Theatre to be named. Bullets over Broadway is also supposed to open in the Spring. With shows like these, theatre owners are likely to hold a theatre and book a limited run in the meantime. They know that Bullets over Broadway is likely to run a long time whereas Tuck is more of a gamble. Doesn't mean there's necessarily anything wrong with the show, it's just a harder sell.
By the way, while a pre-Broadway engagement is meant to refine the show, it also means that the producers are planning to move the show to Broadway and are raising the full capitalization of the show. And they have to move the show usually within a few months because otherwise they'll have to pay a fortune to hold onto the actors... and creatives like Casey Nicholaw and Gregg Barnes are very in demand and have packed schedules. Big Fish is a pre-Broadway engagement. It would take a colossal failure in Chicago for it to not go to NYC because they've already raised millions of dollars. And you can bet the farm that they wouldn't open the show in Chicago if they didn't know they had a Broadway theatre. They could end up screwed.
It would be irresponsible for a company like Broadway Across America to open a show out of town without a guarantee of a theatre. They could lose a fortune by having to wait for a theatre to become available, plus they'd have to pray that other creative team members and actors would still be available. While BAA has the resources to produce what they want, available theatres are finite. It's the theatre owners who ultimately run Broadway, my friends!
#29Tuck Everlasting Postponed?
Posted: 4/12/13 at 8:02amThat's disappointing. We scheduled a vacation in Boston for August and were looking forward to seeing the pre-Broadway engagement. Now looks like our only theatre option is Wicked.
"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)
#30Tuck Everlasting Postponed?
Posted: 4/12/13 at 9:51amDoes postponed ever mean anything other than canceled?
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