Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#0Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:06amPerhaps we could have The Merman, The Mary Martin, etc. Others? Updated On: 8/17/04 at 10:06 AM
#1re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:08amThe Ziemba.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:31amThe Michael Crawford Theater
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#3re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:34am
SHERYL CROW in EVITA
Now playing at the Melanie Griffith Theatre. Call Telecharge for Tickets.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#4re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:41amMatt_G, you jest and yet......
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#5re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:47amMatt, don't even put that stuff out into the universe, buddy.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#6re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:48amBesides, from here on out, they're all going to be corporation names anyway, as horrid as that is.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#7re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:49amBroadway is dead, kids. Sorry, but it's true.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#8re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:53amDying, I think. Not dead. Not yet. Not until what you posted earlier in this thread actually comes to pass. Then it will be dead as dogsh1t.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#9re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:57amBroadway died when a show was not doing too well, and the box office still turned people away and refused to sell them tickets.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#10re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:19am
You're more likely to get names along the lines of current corporate sponsorships of The American Airlines Theatre, The Ford Center for the Performing Arts, etc. than more renamings for bygone stars.
Besides, which theatres would you want to rename?
#11re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:23amDoes anyone else want to build the Raul Esparza Temple in Times Square? A theater is not worthy of his god-like talents.
'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston
Derek2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/10/04
#12re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:25am
Here's some ideas
The Marshall Theatre (named after Rob and Kathleen (Damn Yankees, LSOH, Wonderful Town, Cabaret...))maybe in a few more years...
The Irving Berlin Theatre (that one's easy...)
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#13re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:28amMatt_G, are you STILL bitter about your Broadway box office experience?
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#14re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:35am
Yes, as a matter of fact I am. And I've had the opportunity recently to discuss it with some very important people. I don't think you guys have any idea how mad that made me. We're not talking about one show here. We're talking about 4 of them. All with box office numbers that were WAY below what I'm sure they would have liked, and with less than half the house filled they were turning people away.
So I am bitter about it and I am glad these shows closed and are closing now.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#15re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:42amOne wonders why they haven't renamed the Music Box Theatre in honor of Berlin, as it belongs to the Berlin estate...
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#16re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:45amWell, Berlin & Porter should have houses named after them. I'm sure Sondheim will also, someday.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#17re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:48am
Matt_G: "Broadway died when a show was not doing too well, and the box office still turned people away and refused to sell them tickets."
This sounds like what was discussed in that famous book THE SEASON (can't remember the author). Box Office staff would do anything they could to discourage a sale to a struggling show in order to close it and get it out of their theatre as quickly as possible. The only shows the Box Office staff could "make money on" (wink-wink) was a hit show.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#18re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:49am
Coming Spring 2005:
Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Joey Fatone
in the Barry and Fran Weissler production of
"Sugar"
At the ELTON JOHN Center for the Performing Arts
#19re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:07pmMost likely, we'll have The Coca-Cola, The AT&T, or The Dell before we have any real names. Corporate sponsorship has replaced dignity with advertising.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#20re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:17pmMatt, maybe if you showed up at the box office (un)dressed like your icon, you'd get one of those queens behind the glass to show you more love.
'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#21re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:22pmLondon's West End is getting a Sondheim Theatre next year.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
mamamia sammy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#22re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:40pmidiot.
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bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#23re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:47pmWhat about the MAMMA MIA! theatre? They kept the original name but added CADILLAC. That seems fair but it's too long a name for a theatre.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#24re: Isn't it time we changed the name of a couple more Broadway theatres?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 12:59pm
They should have renamed the Imperial after Les Miz somehow
Same for CATS (The Trevor Nunn Theater?)
