GODSPELL to Close on Broadway June 24

[newintown]

It's astounding that anyone could get so overwrought about anything to do with Godspell, the Teletubbies Jesus Musical.

[FindingNamo]

I've been called worse than childish, obnoxious and completely unprofessional -- you'll need bigger sticks and stones to break my bones, sonny boy.

Wait. You're like 19 and a half, right?

[labwyfan]

How about whiny, uninformed and stupid? Anyone ever call you that?

Raise your own money. The rights are out there for the right price. Stop expecting Ken or anyone else to pay for your vision.

And shut up.

[gvendo2005]

^ Honey, didn't you read, or are your eyes just blind to everything I have to say? Don't worry, I'll quote it for you again, emphasis mine:

You could still rectify the error now by granting us the rights for the one company at the Apollo. Me and my associates will capitalize totally, you get 50%. One company, no grand rights.

And as you well know, it's not June 24 yet. Ken still has a hold. As the rights representative at MTI told us:

All applications we get for GODSPELL who are within 100 mile radius of New York are forwarded to the Broadway Company for approval and their answer varies pending on application.

To quote a little-known Sondheim lyric, "Sad to say, there's no escaping / All the bowing, all the scraping..." (Whoever can identify the source gets a cookie.)

As for Namo, I didn't forget you, baby:

Wait. You're like 19 and a half, right?

21, but good on you for having math skills! I'm sure your mum must be so proud.

[PlayItAgain]

^ Again, let it go. Your not doing yourself any favors by throwing a fit on here like you have for the last 9 months.

[ChildrenwillListen]

That's a shame. It was such a fun afternoon of theatre. I enjoyed it very much and I am glad I could see it, especially with Hunter

[gvendo2005]

^ Again, let it go. Your not doing yourself any favors by throwing a fit on here like you have for the last 9 months.

I'm sorry you lost money in the show. Now stop being so butt-hurt that someone wants to fix the brand.

[ZoeTheGoat]

and scene!

[FindingNamo]

You gotta love a 21 year old calling somebody "sonny boy" and then invoking the dead mother of a poster 29 years his senior.

[Mister Matt]

Namo - He's obviously hurt for someone not having selected his unit. Can't say that's ever happened to me, but the realization you may have an undesirable unit could certainly make one disgruntled. I would assume.

[jimmycurry01]

gvendo2005 I really doubt your show would have done that much better. This is Godspell we are talking about. It is a cute show that gets put on all the time all across the country. No tourist is going to pay top dollar to go see something they can see probably four times a year and travel less than 30 minutes from home to see it. That is why this production was doomed, that is why yours would likely not succeed on Broadway either.

It is a good thing no one knows your real identity, because after all the whining and crying you have done about this here, I don't think any producer would want to do business with you if they knew this is how you act.

[FindingNamo]

I do love the pre-fab image the whole discussion creates. Say the word and a fabled Harlem production of Godspell will assemble itself like a Transformer out of a bunch of crates we have in our storage facility.

Prepare ye the way!

[junkyard]

Gvendo or 'babe' or 'hon' or whatever you like to be called.....aren't you that college kid from Rhode Island, who is living in his own world of theatre fascination? Whatever turns you on kid. Just have fun, how's you pending Broadway production coming along?

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Luke, I also loved the production and don't understand all the hate.

[hyperbole_and_a_half]

It's astounding that anyone could get so overwrought about anything to do with Godspell, the Teletubbies Jesus Musical.

Oh my word, I've never been able to express why I dislike Godspell so fervently before, but, yes, you're right, it's basically Christianity distilled through the Children's Television Workshop. Consider your Godspell description stolen, hunty!

[Rainbowhigh23]

When I was 5 my father took me to see both Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar in the movies. JCS scared the bejesus out of me but I loved the music; Godspell I found boring and made me want to sit through JCS again but with my eyes closed. I feel bad that people will be out of work due to the closing, though. Glad they had a good run and a lot of people got to enjoy it.

[Gothampc]

Time to sell my stock in Glitter Guns.

[Corine2]

The cast were very talented but I have never been a fan of Godspell, or JCS.I never walk out in intermission but both of these shows I found painful. Hated them. I disliked JCS more. It was so loud and Las Vegas. I was worried my ears would bleed.

[FindingNamo]

When you say "never" do you mean any production ever in any medium and when you talk about the shows being painful are you speaking specifically about the current revivals?

[gvendo2005]

No tourist is going to pay top dollar to go see something they can see probably four times a year and travel less than 30 minutes from home to see it. That is why this production was doomed, that is why yours would likely not succeed on Broadway either.

Any production is doomed unless they give people a reason to see it. Harlem worked because, up until that time, it was the only all-black production of Godspell in the show's history. I can't say the "X factor" that makes people buy tickets would be much different (first all-black production of Godspell ever to play Broadway), but people would buy tickets for the novelty, as, historically, they have.

You gotta love a 21 year old calling somebody "sonny boy" and then invoking the dead mother of a poster 29 years his senior.

As you will soon see, snowflake, I'm like the recently departed Gregory House, M.D.: if you don't like my bedside manner, find another doctor. Your loss.

[FindingNamo]

I'm not intimately familiar with that television program, but something tells me you're more of a Doogie Howser cum The Incredible Mr. Limpet.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Two things:

1. Neil Patrick Harris came on Don Knotts?? Video, please.

and

2. I will be using this at all future auditions as my (melo)dramatic monologue:

"Come on, hon. Think about this. They don't want to compete with a good production of Godspell, do they?

Speaking of making good for Godspell, Ken baby, I know you're reading. I want to say I'm sorry things didn't work out for you, my condolences, and that I wish you luck on your next Broadway venture.

Also, because I don't like to resist the opportunity to draw anyone's ire (much less Namo's), call us. We want the rights, which by the way, right now, are worth nothing, to a company at the Apollo. You made a tragic mistake not selecting my unit. We had the vastly superior production and you should have chosen us. You would have won for Best Revival straight up, and there isn't an industry personage who disagrees with me.

I know you're feeling bad, but how do you think we feel? We perfected the best production of Godspell since the original; you didn't choose us, and you should have, and now it seems you failed because of it. For God's sake, for both our sakes, what do you have to lose? You have to run this whole thing and the brand name into the ground to prove you were right when you were obviously wrong?

You could still rectify the error now by granting us the rights for the one company at the Apollo. Me and my associates will capitalize totally, you get 50%. One company, no grand rights. Do you and us a favor: grant us the rights for one company at the Apollo."

[gvendo2005]

If they pay you for it, I want a cut. :P

[FindingNamo]

Of course they pay people for audition monologues, you know that as a theater professional with a pop-up Black Godspell in your back pocket. Just add water!

[Wynbish]

Or add Kool-Aid

I don't understand how an all-black Godspell would be so revolutionary. Broadway has never had an all-white Godspell. The show has always been ethnically diverse on a Broadway stage. The revival cast is even more diverse than the original.

[Gothampc]

This production lacked because it didn't have Trini Alvaredo in it.