MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#2MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:40am
Not surprised in the slightest.
Hal, Stephen, and George are smiling from above
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inception
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
#3MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:41am
Oh good. Now they can finally raise prices.
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#4MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:43am
It’s (finally) a hit!
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Falsettolands
Featured Actor Joined: 11/18/13
#5MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:59am
Folks it's Funny Girl, Fiddler, and Dolly combined...
gordi_92
Understudy Joined: 2/23/22
#6MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 11:45am
Maybe they could release more Lottery seats now 😂😂😂
#7MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 11:47am
Has any other flop show had such a trajectory like this?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#8MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 11:53am
Kad said: "Has any other flop show had such a trajectory like this?"
The original Chicago ran for two years but I’m sure none of them could have imagined a revival running for decades.
BdwyFan
Featured Actor Joined: 3/1/10
#9MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 12:11pm
This is truly amazing. Very impressed. Getting tickets now will be hard I would imagine. Since closing July 7 and front runner for Tony Revival I’d guess.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#10MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 12:22pm
Hard? There are tickets available for both performances TODAY. (Not many, but still.)
Even the closing performance has several hundred available. There is not a single performance going forward that is already sold out, and very few even listed as having low availability.
Will they likely be sold out by performance date? Sure, but it's not like the early days of Hamilton. Nothing has been since COVID.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#11MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 1:08pm
Kad said: "Has any other flop show had such a trajectory like this?"
Financially speaking, divorced from quality, it's almost unheard of. Nothing on this level has ever happened that I'm aware of.
There are plenty of shows whose revivals have run longer than the originals (Cabaret, Chicago, West Side Story, No No Nanette, etc etc etc) and shows that played Broadway years after premiering off-Bway or elsewhere, but this MERRILY situation is so unprecedented.
#12MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/20/24 at 2:03pm
It's unprecedented but I think it's because everything about this is unprecedented. Sondheim's work is unprecedented. There is no other person in musical theatre history who writes scores even close to him, and there is no way they could get a cast like this in this kind of flop if it wasn't Sondheim. We are truly, truly blessed to be theatre fans living in this time (and anyone of course that was alive to see all the original productions was also blessed). Sometimes I feel like I could be the happiest person alive.
"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
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#13MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups
Posted: 3/21/24 at 2:15am
All I know is that Sondheim would have really enjoyed Merrily’s huge success. I wish Sondheim had lived to see Here We Are too, but this turnabout - more than four decades later - would have pleased him immensely.
