Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan, Tony Award winner Harriet Harris and Tony Award winner André De Shields will star in the world premiere of Matthew Lombardo's new backstage comedy WHEN PLAYWRIGHTS KILL. Directed by Noah Himmelstein, this strictly limited engagement will be performed July 26 through August 7, 2022 at The Bushnell's Belding Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Since this is playing the week I'll be in NY, does it make sense to take an overnight trip to Hartford to see this? What is the drive like, is it scenic or just highways? Would you take a bus?
You don’t even have to do an overnight trip. If you go to a matinee, you can just take a train/bus to see it and then just head back to the city afterwards. That’s what I always do.
ACL2006 said: "This smells of a pre-Broadway tryout."
Except none of the actors involved sell tickets to the masses, the producers don't have a great track record, the director hasn't worked on a large scale, and Matthew Lombardo's last two plays ran a combined 40 performances on Broadway. So I will believe this is coming to Broadway when they announce dates and a theatre.
So this is probably a matter of "ticket sales were disastrous in Hartford + it will be cheaper to just put on a 29-hour reading of the play in NYC instead of commercially-producing a proper out-of-town tryout"?