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'Lennon' Musical To Close On Broadway
billboard.com/ ^ | Edited By Barry A. Jeckell. September 16, 2005, 10:25 AM ET

Posted on 09/17/2005 3:15:54 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch

Edited By Barry A. Jeckell. September 16, 2005, 10:25 AM ET

'Lennon' Musical To Close On Broadway

"Lennon," the musical about the life and music of John Lennon that earned dismal reviews, will close just six weeks after it opened on Broadway. Created with the help of the former Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, the show had a troubled road to Broadway that involved major rewrites after it was first produced in San Francisco.

Critics slammed it for what The New York Times called its "Ono-centric" view of Lennon's life, and audiences have dwindled since its Aug. 15 opening night, falling to around 40 percent capacity in recent weeks.

The producers said in a statement "Lennon" would play its final performance Sept. 24, by which time it will have played 42 previews and 49 regular performances.

The show skipped through the early years of Lennon's career, when the Beatles revolutionized popular music, and gives little weight to his first marriage and son before he met Ono, and his split with the Beatles in 1970. It also glossed over a later affair when he and Ono lived apart for more than a year.

"This is John Lennon, the legend, as filtered through the protective, selective, up-with-people, later-life self-interest of Yoko Ono Lennon," Newsday wrote in a review in August.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: broadway; bushsfault; johnlennon; ono; onoonoonoonoonoono; onorous; yokoono
c-h-e-e-s-e-a-n-d-o-n-i-o-n-s ono!
1 posted on 09/17/2005 3:15:54 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch

Now, that's a real shame.........


2 posted on 09/17/2005 3:16:53 PM PDT by Cathy
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To: InvisibleChurch

Imagine there's no Lennon; it's not so hard to do.


3 posted on 09/17/2005 3:20:31 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: InvisibleChurch

I don't think John Lennon's work after the Beatles was of much quality anyway. Maybe because Yoko had her grabby little hands and screechy little voice all over his creative abilities, thereby stifling them. Imagine that, Yoko.Obviously the same affect 25 years later on this crumby Broadway show. Regardless, Lennon's stuff belongs in the 60's and should stay there. R.I.P.


4 posted on 09/17/2005 3:21:22 PM PDT by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: Chi-townChief

Imagine there's no audience. It's easy if you try.


5 posted on 09/17/2005 3:21:24 PM PDT by Montfort (Check out the 200+ page free preview of The Figurehead by Thomas Larus at lulu.com/larus)
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To: InvisibleChurch
"This is John Lennon, the legend, as filtered through the protective, selective, up-with-people, later-life self-interest of Yoko Ono Lennon," Newsday wrote in a review in August.

Even when viewed through that lens, you'd be left with another story about a dead celebrity. He was a funny, witty Liverpuddlian with problems both before and after he became wealthy and famous.
6 posted on 09/17/2005 3:21:39 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: InvisibleChurch

What it must be like to be talentless, brainless, hated, and friggin ugly.


7 posted on 09/17/2005 3:22:14 PM PDT by digger48
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To: InvisibleChurch

"Hmmmm, a play about John Lennon and Yoko Ono? Interesting!"

8 posted on 09/17/2005 3:30:58 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: digger48

...and rich...


9 posted on 09/17/2005 3:32:56 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: InvisibleChurch
I am a huge Beatles and John Lennon fan, yet I never heard of this play and could not care less.
10 posted on 09/17/2005 3:44:12 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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I am a huge Beatles and John Lennon fan...

You should maybe, like, try to go on a diet, loose a few pounds...just saying...

11 posted on 09/17/2005 4:24:27 PM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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You should maybe, like, try to go on a diet, loose a few pounds...just saying...

LOL!

12 posted on 09/17/2005 4:26:13 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

O no!


13 posted on 09/17/2005 5:09:21 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Regardless of what one might think about his politics/lifestyle,he had real talent.

She's a lightweight.Always has been,always will be.

14 posted on 09/17/2005 5:59:08 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: InvisibleChurch
Wonder if they ever found that statue of Lennon that Castro had on public display in Cuba. Last I heard, it was stolen and Fidel was ticked his communist comrade was still lost.
15 posted on 09/17/2005 9:29:12 PM PDT by LowOiL ("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" -Benjamin Rush)
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