TCP you know what you meant to me. I miss you so much. Thanks for giving me the push of hope right when I needed it. Many blessings to all the cast and the creative crew. I loved this show.
Going to a musical late in its run is like going to a prostitute late in her shift.
We had made history. We had stuffed the 1700 seats of the Broadway Theater our first year to recover the entire $11 million investment. We had done over 900 shows and received standing ovations for all of them.
LaChanze won a Tony for one of the eleven nominations we received. We were ushered into the building with good energy from other successful black shows like "Carmen Jones," which opened 62 years before us and ran for 500 shows and "Purlie," which earned two leads Tonys. Still, we broke box office records for most money made in two years in this theater. So to hear the announcement that our show would close impaled the spiritual spine of the building.
Goodbye, TCP you were, "Too beautiful for words." First Broadway show my mother was excited to see and it met her expectations.
I'm not gonna hate you in the magazines,
(I'm better than that)
I'm not gonna compromise my Christianity,
(I'm better than that)
You know I'm not gonna diss you on the Internet
Cause my momma taught me better than that.
It was nice to read his story. IMO, I think the show would have closed sooner had Fantasia not been cast. I remember the numbers being on the low side between the time LaChanze left and Fantasia started.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
Malaijah, thanks for the link. It was a very nice and moving read. Clearly this was one show where many people involved had a strong emotional investment in it. This definitely came out in the performances that I saw. Also, this article again magnifies how sad it is when a show closes. Many people are effected and it's never a happy event, no matter what the show. This is why it always upsets me when people here say "_________ needs to close now!" That negative attitude is never OK, no matter how much you don't like a show.
Sad day that it closed, but I think it was time. It had an amazing run. The show for me never really was the same after LaChanze left (though I absolutely loved Kenita Miller as Celie).
justme2: If there is any coverage, which they usually do for Broadway closings, maybe it'll be a couple of more days before we see anything, and the most reliable sources for that would probably be BWW and maybe Playbill.
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