6 Broadway closings today

[Fantod]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 1:50am

Side Show
Pippin
Once
This is Our Youth
The Illusionists
The Real Thing

Sad to see Side Show flop so quickly. Anybody going to see any of them? Report back, please!

Updated On: 1/4/15 at 01:50 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 2:06am

Seeing Sideshow (gift from wife) as we have seen other 3

[Susanswerphone]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 2:08am

The Real Thing



Updated On: 1/4/15 at 02:08 AM

[gleek4114]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 2:11am

Glad you're going to get to see it, Mr. Roxy. As a fellow Big Fish fan, I think you will really enjoy it!

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 2:13am

The Illusionists and The Real Thing.

There are six Broadway closings today.

Updated On: 1/4/15 at 02:13 AM

[Fantod]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 2:22am

fixed.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 11:24am

To those going today to Sideshow

T shirts no longer on website so they may or may not be at the theater.

Updated On: 1/4/15 at 11:24 AM

[mc1227]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 11:55am

I will be at This Is Our Youth tonight. I will gladly report back tomorrow...

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 1:11pm

^^"Glad you're going to get to see it, Mr. Roxy. As a fellow Big Fish fan, I think you will really enjoy it!"

???? I really enjoyed Side Show also but I didn't like Big Fish at all..so not sure if I see the correlation.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 3:12pm

It's sad The Illutionists recouped so quickly but something like Side Show can't even have a profitable week.

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Posted: 1/4/15 at 4:22pm

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Posted: 1/4/15 at 4:31pm

I know it's not on Brodway but HERE LIES LOVE is also closing tonight.

[Up In One]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 6:23pm

With the recasting of Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally and Rupert Grint one could argue that It's Only A Play semi-closed - the play was not the thing here and those three actors were certainly the top three celebrities in the show.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 6:47pm

How could you possibly know that?

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 7:45pm

The upside of this is that there are 30,000+ theater goers who have been attending closing shows who will now visit shows that remain.

Survival of the fittest is brutal, but the survivors do reap rewards.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 8:38pm

Believe Lane was the drawing card @ Play. Mullally did nothing for Young Frankenstein and Grint not as much as everybody thought. It was Lane.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 11:32pm

It's sad The Illutionists recouped so quickly but something like Side Show can't even have a profitable week.

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Right!?
SS lost all of their $7-8M investment yet the Illusionists recouped during their short couple of weeks on Broadway...that's show business!

Updated On: 1/4/15 at 11:32 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 11:35pm

It is called the dumbing down of Broadway

People do not want to think.Just mindless fun is all we want.Nothing wrong with that but people just seem to want that and nothing more.After all, Times Square is Disneyland East.

Updated On: 1/4/15 at 11:35 PM

[Robbie2]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 11:39pm

I have a concierge-ticket agent friend and he said that the Illusionists was the top show that the tourists wanted to see on Broadway during the holidays from Thanksgiving>New Years and that all the hotels were promoting it as well so smart marketing on those producers!

Updated On: 1/4/15 at 11:39 PM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 12:02am

The illusionist was/is a touring show. How high could their Broadway investment have been?

That being said, how do they even figure that out for a touring show?

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 1:58am

"People do not want to think. Just mindless fun is all we want."

Not sure how this argument applies to a magic show, given that typically all you do in them is think and wonder how they are doing the tricks, etc. Then again, I'm not really sure why we're even comparing a non-narrative magic show to Broadway musicals like they are the same thing.

That said, there does seem to be a great case here for the power of marketing, given that The Illusionists AFAIK are all unknown magicians.

[Susanswerphone]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 2:53am

Lane was definitely the draw for IOAP, but Micah Stock garnered the most applause both times I saw the show.

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 3:35pm

The illusionist was only 1.75 million, super easy to recoup, especially when your non equity and doing 12 show weeks at broadway prices.