"Mamma Mia!" to Close on Broadway
"Mamma Mia!" to Close on Broadway
AKarp2013
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/11
ohjustjake
Leading Actor Joined: 4/18/06
#2"Mamma Mia!" to Close on Broadway
Posted: 4/9/15 at 6:55pm
Shocking, but at the same time, its about time.
"Ok ok ok ok ok ok ok. Have you guys heard about fidget spinners!?" ~Patti LuPone
ebontoyan
Broadway Star Joined: 9/22/14
#7whatttt
Posted: 4/9/15 at 7:04pm
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hopefully theatre-going audiences will now choose to spend their money supporting shows with original scores.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
ebontoyan
Broadway Star Joined: 9/22/14
MarkBearSF
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/11
#9whatttt
Posted: 4/9/15 at 7:11pm
It's been interesting seeing the numbers over the past year or so since it moved to the Broadhurst. One would think that moving to a smaller house would result in more full houses, but instead was way up and down through the year.
It appears that, although it's a well-known title, it really benefitted by the big marquee on Broadway and when it moved to the less-obvious Broadhurst, it dropped off many tourists' radar.
Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
#14whatttt
Posted: 4/9/15 at 7:20pm
"It's been interesting seeing the numbers over the past year or so since it moved to the Broadhurst. One would think that moving to a smaller house would result in more full houses, but instead was way up and down through the year.
It appears that, although it's a well-known title, it really benefitted by the big marquee on Broadway and when it moved to the less-obvious Broadhurst, it dropped off many tourists' radar."
It wasn't doing great at the Winter Garden before it moved but youre right that the move didn't really benefit the show at all.
A1st
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/14
Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
#16whatttt
Posted: 4/9/15 at 7:26pm
"I can't say I am 100% surprised, but I will say congratulations for such an amazing run. That being said, I'm now putting money that fiddler will take the broadhurst"
I reckon Fiddler will go to the Imperial and a play takes the Broadhurst like King Charles III unless this new production of Fiddler is smaller in scale.
broadwayfan24
Leading Actor Joined: 7/7/04
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#20whatttt
Posted: 4/9/15 at 7:33pm
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