| re: Multiple reviews questioned how the show even got produced | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:50 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Multiple reviews questioned how the show even got produced - Delvino 09:01 am EST 01/05/22 | |
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| But again, I don't think it can be ignored that COVID played a big and perhaps definitive role in closing FLYING early. So it can't be compared with any other LCT musical. And it also can't be compared in the sense that I think there was/is WAY WAY more interest and buzz over what is essentially a new Sondheim musical (a score only stauch devotees have heard, with rewrites and a couple new songs by him), with a new book by the beloved Nathan Lane and starring Lane, who was even more famous as an actor then than he is now (in terms of box office). Add to that that it was directed and choreographed (heavily) by the current reigning star of Broadway director/choreographers, reuniting with Lane from their smash triumph with The Producers.... this was a very buzzed about show. I think mixed reviews and mixed word of mouth and high production cost is what kept the show from extending further. We have to also remember a theater like LCT with a scheduled season reserving their own theaters for other shows to occupy every few months means that if a show is a hit they must pay to move it to a Broadway house that they have to rent, or it means renting a broadway house to mount their next scheduled show(s) in to keep their surprise hit running. It's a very expensive proposition. I think it must have been clear that the sales, based on word on the actual show (rather than the buzz-worthy potential of it) and the mixed reviews are what kept it from going further. For what it's worth, it seems like they used to schedule shorter runs too... Junk (2017) - 97 The Great Society (2019) - 98 Act One (2014) - 98 A Free Man of Color (2010) - 90 Women On the Verge (2010) - 99 The Frogs (2004) - 126 Seascape (2005) - 82 Thou Shalt Not (2001) - 118 The Invention of Love (2001) 139 Marie Christine (1999) - 81 Parade (1999) - 124 Twelfth Night (1998) - 83 (despite starring big Oscar winner that year Helen Hunt) Juan Darien (1996) - 69 Chronicle of Death Foretold (1995) - 65 My Favorite Year (1992) - 81 Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (1992) - 64 |
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