| re: 'The show is closed' | |
| Posted by: ryhog 06:02 pm EDT 05/04/24 | |
| In reply to: 'The show is closed' - WaymanWong 02:27 pm EDT 05/04/24 | |
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| As I say with frightening consistency, there are no rules in the theatre. As you point out by counting, the closed show rule has more holes in it than swiss cheese. I thought Chip's performance was the best thing about the show. By far. I think it warranted a nomination here, but for whatever reasons, others did not. I think it is less likely to get nominated if your show closed with its tail between its legs, but your stats don't answer that question, and I am not inclined to figure out the answer. When it came to Broadway, I believe I wrote here that this was a show that lacked anyone any experience with how to make a Broadway show a success. It had a lead producer with an astonishing track record of failure; a composer, lyricist, and book writer who, despite great success in other art forms, had no experience in making a Broadway musical; a director who had no experience as a director of an even remotely successful Broadway musical. In a thread that is still on this page, I wrote about the lost generations of potential musical theatre writers and how some of them had relatively recently found their way back via old catalogs used in jukebox musicals. These shows also have a poor track record but there are obvious exceptions to that (again, because there are no "rules"). I have no idea what any nominator's thought process was, but I think many of us have a (probably unfair) lack of enthusiasm about elements of shows that overall did not work. Someday, I shall write a book entitled "Making Broadway Musicals isn't as Easy as it Looks." :-) |
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