| strongly agree re: general demand | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 08:15 am EDT 05/30/24 | |
| In reply to: re: no prices known for Gypsy, correct? looking at my pocketbook... - mikem 10:29 pm EDT 05/29/24 | |
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| I have no doubt she’ll be terrific - she’s upended expectations time and again right from the beginning 30 years ago when some people I know thought she was ‘strange’ casting as Carrie Pipperidge (it was a different time), through playing Billie Holiday, right up to Frankie and Johnny. I haven’t loved every production she’s ever done but I can genuinely say she’s never once given a bad performance that I’ve seen, either on stage, film or TV. That said, I agree with the first half of Mike’s comment here. Lady Day did recoup and mostly sell out - but being conceived to feel intimate, it was a limited run in one of the very smallest theaters on Broadway. She’s as close to theater royalty as it gets, at (one hopes) exactly hitting the midpoint of her career and at the height of her powers. But with all due respect, in terms of the general public, I’d be surprised if anyone thinks she’s even as well-known as Tyne Daly was in 1989, let alone Bernadette Peters in 2003 or Patti LuPone in 2008. I’m not comparing talent, skill or (obviously) number of Tony awards, mind you… I’m merely saying that being on Private Practice for a few seasons 15 years ago and one of the leads of a well-regarded streaming series (The Good Fight) that only ran on one streaming service doesn’t equate with being a national living legend for decades the way Bernadette Peters had been since the Carol Burnett TV show and the Mel Brooks and Steve Martin movies from the 1970s by the time she did Gypsy 20 years ago. Just last season Ohio State Murders closed a month early, and she was almost literally the entire show. Needless to say a musical will always outsell a play, and the recognition of the Gypsy name is not to be sniffed at. But with some tickets remaining for Robert Downey Jr’s 3-month Broadway debut this fall, I’d be stunned if this is the kind of pre-sale that starts filling the Majestic the minute it goes on sale, 6 months before it opens, the way that Hugh Jackman or Bette Midler were able to do when their shows went on sale. Curious to hear others’ thoughts though. |
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