HEIGHTS to Broadway
HEIGHTS to Broadway
Smartful Dodger
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/05
#1HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:18pm
#2re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:23pmI hope this also means we will be getting a cast recording...I really enjoyed this show.
#2re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:24pm
Good to see their making revisions. It was a pretty good show that had a lot of potential. A diamond in the rough.
Hope they re-cast Mandy Gonzalez though. She's got a nice voice, can dance, and is pretty. But she hasn't mastered the art of singing and acting at the same time, as well as placing yourself onstage in a number.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#3re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:25pmThat's really cool, considering I'd like to see it. Question is...which theatre is this going to go into?
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Smartful Dodger
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/05
#5re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:28pmI just hope they keep Karen Olivo as Vanessa. She was great. My guess is that it will probably go into either the Longacre after Talk Radio closes or into the Cort if Radio Golf closes sometime in the near future.
#6re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:29pm^Loved Olivo too. GREAT voice.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Smartful Dodger
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/05
#7re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:29pmTo the question of which theatre -- my money is on a closing announcement for RENT, a slight rehab of the Nederlander, and then the transfer. Same producing team, similar but not exact audience target.
#8re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:31pm
Oh, I hope it's not the Cort. What about the Music Box or the Jacobs?
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Updated On: 5/23/07 at 07:31 PM
Lauren_T
Stand-by Joined: 11/28/06
#9re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:31pmflop flop flop flop flop flop flop flop flop..oh and I think it is going to flop!
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#10re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:35pmThe Jacobs {not Jacobson} has the london transfer of Rock 'n roll after Frost/Nixon
Trish2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/20/06
usmma2010
Understudy Joined: 5/1/07
#12re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:37pmall i have to say is this show needs to find the smallest theater possible if it wants a chance
"and in the end the love you make is equal to the love you take"
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#13re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:39pm
It is playing to half sold houses Off-Broadway in a theater half the size of a Broadway theater- do they expect it to do better on Broadway?
And there is no way RENT is closing this next year.
#14re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:44pmI suppose they could open at the Booth or Lyceum, which are both really small. But that's assuming nothing is booked into them yet.
#15re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:58pmA less than mediocre show with no stars that can't even sell out a 500 seat theatre off-Broadway is going to move to a 1000+ seat theatre on Broadway. Wouldn't it just be easier to burn a pile of money?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#16re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:00pmDidn't they say the same thing about Avenue Q (though it was great material from the get-go)?
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#17re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:02pm
whatever people said the same about Spring Awakening when they announced a transfer. I wish it well!
edit- exactly yankee!
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
Updated On: 5/23/07 at 08:02 PM
WiiCKED x3
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/06
#19re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:47pm
"A less than mediocre show with no stars that can't even sell out a 500 seat theatre off-Broadway is going to move to a 1000+ seat theatre on Broadway. Wouldn't it just be easier to burn a pile of money?"
I have to agree with you on that one.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#20re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:48pmBut didn't SA do better off-Broadway than In the Heights?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#21re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:50pmTheir best (and only IMO) shot at success would be to wait for "Xanadu" to close and grab the Helen Hayes, which would probably mean a spring opening.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#22re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:51pm
SPRING AWAKENING played at a non-for-profit, 250 seat theatre off-Broadway. Same with AVENUE Q and GREY GARDENS. IN THE HEIGHTS is playing at a large (500+) seat theatre in a commercial run and it's not doing overly well. It just doesn't make sense to me.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 5/23/07 at 08:51 PM
#23re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:55pmMaybe it's selling to half-full houses it's in Siberia...but I for one am really excited about it. It's a great show that could clean up great for Broadway. IMO, they should open in Spring 2008 to catch the spring/summer and tony buzz, which I'm sure it will have. I think the Hayes is too small for the show. I wish it could take the Nederlander.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
ItsCalledHistory
Understudy Joined: 4/29/05
#24re: HEIGHTS to Broadway
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:59pmI agree with those that think it should go into a small theatre (i.e. the Helen Hayes) and that the show is good and with a little tweaking it will be great... But I think that a RENT closing may just happen -- perhaps after Anthony and Adam leave. Hope I'm wrong.
