BAT OUT OF HELL Will Play 8 Weeks At NY City Center In 2019

[Sho-Tunes-R-Us]

Still hearing City Center is back on from my source, but not given any timeline.

[SmoothLover]

I am sure it will come to the wire as to whether or not it all happens. It must be a little frustrating for City Center.

[SmoothLover]

Bump! Does anyone have any new information about this event?

[Lot666]

SmoothLover said: "Bump! Does anyone have any new information about this event?"

I wish. Really wanted to see this.

[rosscoe(au)]

Was so disappointed that the LA run was canned.

[RumTumJM]

I, too, have heard (from a very reliable source) that the producers, etc are still planning on going ahead with it. In fact, Meat Loaf is gonna start doing press for it. 

No one knows anything about dates, cast, etc (including said source). Many still doubt it will happen. But, I can confirm that they are sending Meat around on the media circuit to build up hype for it. 

[ggersten]

RumTumJM said: "I, too, have heard (from a very reliable source) that the producers, etc are still planning on going ahead with it. In fact, Meat Loaf is gonna start doing press for it.

No one knows anything about dates, cast, etc (including said source). Many still doubt it will happen. But, I can confirm that they are sending Meat around on the media circuit to build up hype for it."

That's interesting, because it was definitely advertised and promoted as a Jim Steinman musical - not a musical based or having anything to do with Meat Loaf. But since that didn't work out too well in the UK, perhaps they have since approached Meat Loaf about US publicity.   

[tourboi]

They used Meat Loaf a lot early in promotions up in Toronto during the first run. 

Someone asked earlier "Didn't it do well in Toronto?"

Nope. It sold okay the first round mostly due to subscription. The return with the 'tour' failed and didn't sell well at all. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

ggersten said: "...it was definitely advertised and promoted as a Jim Steinman musical - not a musical based or having anything to do with Meat Loaf."

Says who? His name was on the marquee for the Manchester tryout:



At some point in the process, they even added prominent billing for him as a below-the-title associate producer, although from what I could see all he really did was attend the show once in a blue moon and show up to a few launch events.

Like I said elsewhere in the thread, 2% of the U.S. knows Jim Steinman had anything to do with Bat Out of Hell. The UK and Europe only marginally know him for more than that. Nobody left Meat Loaf out of the promotion; in fact, they probably wished he could have done more.

[Sho-Tunes-R-Us]

Was so sad that the pre-Broadway San Francisco engagement died (along with the tour and NYC City Center dates) and will only believe the US production is happening when my asterisk is in a theatre seat where BOOH is on the marquee.

[SmoothLover]

My friend who works at City Center said that they put down a deposit for the run not too long ago. Seems however, if it is really happening, we should start seeing some ticket sales.

[RippedMan]

Or auditions...

[SmoothLover]

But then as we have seen with other venues deposits and ticket sales mean nothing.

[leftyloveshuskies]

I just received a letter from DC's National Theater about the cancellation of Bat Out of Hell.  Here is one statement I thought you might be interested in "Because of the size and technical complexity of this spectacular musical, producers have decided to take the show directly to New York rather than tour ...."

[SmoothLover]

leftyloveshuskies said: "I just received a letter from DC's National Theater about the cancellation of Bat Out of Hell. Here is one statement I thought you might be interested in "Because of the size and technical complexity of this spectacular musical, producers have decided to take the show directly to New York rather than tour ....""

That quote was basically the essence of the last press release that was carried on Broadway.com not too long ago. But one has to wonder if it is the truth of the situation or something put together by a PR person.

 

[tourboi]

Hillarious because the tour version was already largely scaled down based on the initial Toronto run and tour run there.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

More to the point, I've seen tons of video of the "bigger-budget, full-featured" version (in Manchester and at the London Coliseum), and if they paid more than one to two million for those sets, they got robbed. The projection screens and the pool of water were the most complicated elements of the damn thing.

[Tag]

^The full scale version (West End version & Toronto initial run) were SUPER impressive, and you saw every dollar onstage. It was way over the top.  The projections were some of the best I've seen, and the flying was very complicated.  I mean a CAR falls into the orchestra pit!  A motorcycle explodes and the debris fly into a heart shape in the air.  Any money spent, was well spent.

[SmoothLover]

Perhaps they can use some slides and scaffolding for the NY run so the producer can save more money..

[RippedMan]

Any videos of that? that sounds amazing.

[SmoothLover]

Somehow I do not think a car will crash into the orchestra pit at City Center if the nyc production comes to pass.

[SmoothLover]

Bump. Word is that tickets go on sale next week.

[Sho-Tunes-R-Us]

SmoothLover said: "Bump. Word is that tickets go on sale next week."

At what location?  Bayonne, New Jersey?  Deets, por favor.

[SmoothLover]

NT City Center.

[Sho-Tunes-R-Us]

SmoothLover said: "NT City Center."

TY.