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Post by Mark on Sept 16, 2022 20:32:46 GMT
WOW. Thats unreal to read.
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Post by 141920grm on Sept 16, 2022 20:38:35 GMT
can they bring the broadway sets over to london lol
(of course i'm devastated at the news but this was the thought that came after)
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Post by 141920grm on Sept 16, 2022 20:42:32 GMT
surely they are not closing it so the murder mystery show can film there at the original production one last time... then "reopening" with a "new" set that's "slicker" and "reimagined"...
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Post by raider80 on Sept 16, 2022 20:56:10 GMT
Forgive me all for the grenade I’m about to throw. Cinderella into the Majestic???
In all seriousness I’m shocked, this show is an institution to Broadway that I thought will never leave.
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Post by d'James on Sept 16, 2022 21:01:48 GMT
They’ll reopen it just cut down.
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Post by anthony on Sept 16, 2022 21:16:09 GMT
So the NY Times have confirmed it.
Final performance on 18th February 2023. Cast told earlier today. Shocking.
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Sept 16, 2022 21:24:19 GMT
If it's losing nearly $1m a month, its not that surprising. They'll get the Christmas holiday period and no doubt they'll add a lot of extra performances that week and maybe the closing announcement will cause a surge and they might cling on for a little while longer.
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Post by anthony on Sept 16, 2022 21:29:12 GMT
Confirmed on the official website now. Genuinely shocking.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 16, 2022 21:40:52 GMT
Here’s hoping!
I bet CM is planning on closing Broadway and replacing with the terrible London version.
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Post by kyvai on Sept 16, 2022 22:32:30 GMT
Aaaarrrggghhhh!!! I’m just in the middle of planning a Broadway trip for next spring and was so looking forward to seeing this production. Bum. Not sure I can bring it forward enough to catch it now. Dammit.
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Post by showtoones on Sept 16, 2022 22:49:44 GMT
Here’s hoping! I bet CM is planning on closing Broadway and replacing with the terrible London version. I thought that too, but perhaps they would’ve announced that it was coming back in a new form? Or maybe they don’t want a tease it so that more people will pay to see this version before closes? Only time will tell… |
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Sept 16, 2022 22:58:51 GMT
In London they tried to do it under the cover of covid but they wont get that on Broadway. I would imagine it will close and then go out on another US tour
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Post by sukhavati on Sept 16, 2022 23:13:33 GMT
Here’s hoping! I bet CM is planning on closing Broadway and replacing with the terrible London version. That's my first thought as well. There will be the whole song and dance that "due to popular demand" the show will instead go dark for awhile to reopen a "bigger and better" version, which will be rubbish.
Now I have to think hard about making another NY trip. I really don't want to be there in the winter, but one last chance to see the original production might be worth it.
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Post by carmella1 on Sept 16, 2022 23:46:04 GMT
Maybe he wants the theatre for Bad Cinderella which will close immediately.
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Post by mattnyc on Sept 17, 2022 1:27:31 GMT
I can’t imagine what the city will be like without Phantom. It’s been this theatrical constant for most of my life and is pretty much our Broadway mascot. It’s going to be so odd to walk down the street and not have that mask on a marquee and all the poles.
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Post by Jon on Sept 17, 2022 1:36:36 GMT
I wonder who made the decision, RUG or the Shuberts? I am surprised they’re closing it rather than just downsizing and moving it to a smaller theatre.
I don’t see it closing in London just yet though although it would nice to see a new show at Her/His Majesty’s Theatre
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Post by spathzthecat on Sept 17, 2022 1:36:36 GMT
What's the next show to close in NY or in the UK?
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Post by chernjam on Sept 17, 2022 1:41:34 GMT
I can’t imagine what the city will be like without Phantom. It’s been this theatrical constant for most of my life and is pretty much our Broadway mascot. It’s going to be so odd to walk down the street and not have that mask on a marquee and all the poles. Yeah that was my thought too. My first broadway musical ever - was Aspects of Love. Phantom was sold out a year in advance at the time. Plus knowing nothing of either show, it didn't really matter (I was being "forced" to expand my "cultural horizons" by my parents being in high school and not really knowing much of theatre) In any event, I was shocked how much I loved Aspects of Love and became a huge ALW fan pretty quickly. The fact that Phantom has continued to run as its main competition the year it opened, Into the Woods, has been revived I think 4 times since - is remarkable. Hard to believe it's coming to an end. I do wonder if as someone suggested this is an effort to drum up sales and interest (especially with that reality thing just being announced) and then to reopen with the "new" version |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2022 2:03:36 GMT
I loathed Cinderella, so this isn't to defend it - but I highly doubt he'd close his cash cow for that. We don't need to kick a horse when its down.
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Sept 17, 2022 4:51:04 GMT
Isn't Cinderella going into the Imperial Theatre?
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Post by inthenose on Sept 17, 2022 6:06:00 GMT
It’s not “closing”, it is a cash cow. The cut down West End version will reopen in its place within months of this production ending at the Majestic. “Reimagined and innovative” etc etc..
Broadway’s unions are going to play merry hell, but it will happen exactly as originally planned, with lots of grumbling.
The worst that will happen is one or two hit pieces in the NYP or Times.
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Post by inthenose on Sept 17, 2022 6:06:53 GMT
It’s not “closing”. The cut down West End version will reopen within months. “Reimagined and innovative”. Broadway’s unions are going to play merry hell, and it will happen exactly as originally planned, with lots of grumbling. The worst that will happen is one or two hit pieces in the NYP or Times. Mark my words. The “new” production announced within a few months of closing. |
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Post by 141920grm on Sept 17, 2022 9:27:36 GMT
It’s not “closing”. The cut down West End version will reopen within months. “Reimagined and innovative”. Broadway’s unions are going to play merry hell, and it will happen exactly as originally planned, with lots of grumbling. The worst that will happen is one or two hit pieces in the NYP or Times. Mark my words. The “new” production announced within a few months of closing. The likelihood of this happening is even more depressing than the show closing forever lmao... and they'll likely not re-hire much of the "old guard" people who have dedicated a fair part of their lives to the show, built livelihoods around the show... I'd bet money on another fiasco where CM offhandedly goes "I don't understand why people would want to stay in the same show for years and years"... At least we all know CM/ALW's playbook for this by now. End of an era for the original and only POTO... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2022 11:10:41 GMT
If the show is losing $1 million a month at the Majestic, closing the original production and reopening in a smaller theatre, with the cheaper-to-run London production, seems perfectly sensible. Of course, that's speculation that it will reopen in another theatre, but I suspect demand for the show will be huge over the next five months, and that's the route they'll go down. But whatever spin they put on it, I think the bottom line is the original version of Phantom is unsustainable in the current climate.
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Sept 17, 2022 16:32:55 GMT
Maybe he wants the theatre for Bad Cinderella which will close immediately. It’s an extremely ALW move to close your most famous and successful show to try and prove to the haters that your new not very good show is actually amazing |
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