Yanni to Play Limited Broadway Run This Spring at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 1:39pm

Well, this is unexpected:

 

https://www.broadway.com/buzz/195200/yanni-to-play-limited-broadway-run-this-spring-at-lunt-fontanne-theatre/

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 3:14pm

Yanni will alternate performances with Laurel.

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 3:42pm

I see what you did there....

[10086sunset]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 4:03pm

Seriously?

This residency thing has already become a joke.

[Owen22]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 4:04pm

Isn't there a dearth of Broadway theaters at the moment? Why are they wasting space with this?

[haterobics]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 4:10pm

Owen22 said: "Isn't there a dearth of Broadway theaters at the moment? Why are they wasting space with this?"

He's only playing for six days, so if the theater is open, why wouldn't they make some money on it?!

He's not doing some Springsteen on Broadway thing for a year and a half...

[zainmax]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 4:25pm

Yanni is not exactly like Ariana Grande and the other artists that Riedel mentioned in his article.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 5:05pm

Owen22 said: "Isn't there a dearth of Broadway theaters at the moment? Why are they wasting space with this?"

 

Calm your t*ts!  it's a 6-day run.  There aren't a whole lot of plays waiting for a theatre to become available for less than a week's run!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/18/19 at 5:21pm

They’re doing this to keep the theatre free for TINA, this Fall

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 6:35am

Art is Dead

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 6:43am

Calm down, Mary.

[The Other One]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 7:30am

When I first read this, I mistakenly saw it as "Yank to play limited Broadway run this spring..." and I wondered how a show that never quite made it in spite of a big push could end up with a week on Broadway over ten years after it never went anywhere to begin with, who could possibly gain by it and what could be weirder.

Yanni playing on Broadway is weirder.  I had no idea he was still around.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 7:36am

What Yanni does isn't ART?   Boy do you need to expand your idea of what art is.  It might not be your taste, (it's not really mine) but it is art.  

[magictodo123]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 7:43am

10086sunset said: "Seriously?

This residency thing has already become a joke."

I agree. Do we think the Lunt will just become a place for residencies and won't have actual productions? Or are they waiting for a production--maybe Dreamgirls or something? Isn't that supposed to transfer at some point? 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 8:52am

You should really read the whole thread. I’ve alreadt said these shows are keeping the theatre occupied until TINA takes it this Fall.

[magictodo123]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 9:29am

Ohh. It's been confirmed for the LF? Or is this speculation. No need to get snippy. 

[haterobics]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 9:53am

magictodo123 said: "Ohh. It's been confirmed for the LF? Or is this speculation. No need to get snippy."

Even if nothing were officially confirmed. I think a theater can safely know that it can host someone for six days before its next open-ended run lands, and we can safely assume that no show isn't losing out on a theater because of Yanni...

[magictodo123]

Posted: 3/20/19 at 10:08am

I guess I was just thinking that here’s are a lot of limited runs on Broadway right now so I was wondering why people would assume Tina is going into the LF. It could be Tina. A lot has been announced to come in and it could be one of those shows. We won’t know until there’s an official announcement,