Could Beetlejuice Plan A Move Now

[nycesq]

Posted: 3/13/20 at 4:35pm

Given the current theater shutdown, and with Beetlejuice having to vacate the Winter Garden in early June, and with the possibility of some theater houses  becoming available, what are the chances the producers may plan a move soon while things are on hiatus, if the show is to have a continued run on Broadway?

[Falsettolands]

Posted: 3/13/20 at 4:55pm

I would imagine this shut down was the nail in the coffin for any plans for a move.

The lack of income for the four weeks will surely negate any traction they may have had for a move, not that the chances were very high any way.

Let's keep our fingers crossed that they can still cut their losses and a tour can still be salvaged.

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/13/20 at 5:30pm

I say, and this is just me spitballing: eliminate the middleman entirely. Cut the transfer search AND cut the tour, and jump instead to licensing with a special promotional price on high school and amateur productions.

It could be the biggest show rollout since Beauty and the Beast dropped in 2004.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 9:01am

I don't understand how its "traction" differs from any other show. I took the OP to be suggesting that this would be an opportune time for a move. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 9:29am

Considering this one-month shutdown is honestly jus a preliminary step, with the possibility of extension depending on the spread of the virus, it is also a distinct possibility that it could kill the rest of the run if it gets really bad.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 9:46am

quizking101 said: "Considering this one-month shutdown is honestly jus a preliminary step, with the possibility of extension depending on the spread of the virus, it is also a distinct possibility that it could kill the rest of the run if it gets really bad."

agreed but I don't think this is less true for many shows. We will have to wait and see (just as we do for everything else), and clearly new  rules will need to address the situation when we come out of the other side. 

[trpguyy]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 10:14am

Welcome back, Hogan. I for one have missed your insights these past several days, but was under the assumption that this has been a very busy week for you.

[Falsettolands]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 10:35am

HogansHero said: "I don't understand how its "traction" differs from any other show. I took the OP to be suggesting that this would be an opportune time for a move."

well if that's what the OP meant: it doesn't differ, and isn't opportune.

[JennH]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 10:57am

For this specific scenario, this is extremely unlikely, so I'm just going to assume it won't happen. I know I might be assuming too much, but I'd be surprised to be proven wrong. 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 11:55am

Falsettolands said: "HogansHero said: "I don't understand how its "traction" differs from any other show. I took the OP to be suggesting that this would be an opportune time for a move."

well if that's what the OP meant:it doesn't differ, and isn't opportune."

How this this anything but a non-sequitur?

@trpguyy thanks. just kinda doing what hopefully we all are right now, and being diverted by that. As another post expresses in a slightly different way, the theatre will be here when we hopefully are ready to receive it.

Updated On: 3/14/20 at 11:55 AM

[VotePeron]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 12:36pm

There is no way a move is happening at this point. Between the money lost over the next 5 weeks (when they’d have to be building a new set) and the fact tourism will be nonexistent in NYC over the summer, Beetlejuice has landed the whole being dead thing.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 12:40pm

Speculation, speculation, speculation...

[MadisonGuy]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 1:57pm

Falsettolands said: "I would imagine this shut down was the nail in the coffin for any plans for a move.

The lack of income for the four weeks will surely negate any traction they may have had for a move, not that the chances were very high any way.

Let's keep our fingers crossed that they can still cut their losses and a tour can still be salvaged."

I think unfortunately you are right. 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 2:07pm

VotePeron said: "the fact tourism will be nonexistent in NYC over the summer"

Where did you get that "fact" from? Accepting the "fact" that we do not know the course of this virus, but positing the generally accepted science, we should be on the other side of this by Memorial Day under the gloomier projections. And it is not like New York is Chernobyl; this virus knows no bounds. Once we are out of harm's way, the tourists will come. And unless we fail miserably, the welcome mat will have been withdrawn. What exactly are you saying here?

 

[jiaxing_26]

Posted: 3/14/20 at 3:23pm

Was at Ethel Barrymore last Wednesday for The Inheritance, and I seriously doubt it can fit Beetlejuice in there