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Broadway show about the Clintons to close early due to low ticket sales
Washington Examiner ^
| 6/17/2019
| Zachary Halaschak
Posted on 06/17/2019 1:13:59 PM PDT by simpson96
The curtain will be falling early on a Broadway play featuring Bill and Hillary Clinton as the lead characters because of poor ticket sales.
The play, “Hillary and Clinton,” which stars Laurie Metcalf as Hillary Clinton and John Lithgow as Bill Clinton, is set to close on June 23 — nearly a month before its previously planned close on July 21, according to Hollywood Reporter.
A production by Scott Rudin, it is set in an alternate universe and is based on imagined interactions between Bill and Hillary Clinton in a New Hampshire hotel during the latter’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign.
The play cost $4.2 million to produce, and by the time it ends, will have had 37 preview and 77 regular performances. Despite the poor performance at the box office, the production earned a Tony nomination for Metcalf’s portrayal of the former secretary of state.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: broadway; clinton; getwokegobroke; joemantello; johnlithgow; lauriemetcalf; lucashnath; scottrudin
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To: simpson96
...Broadway show about the Clintons to close early due to low ticket sales...
Just like her campaign
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:30:29 PM PDT
by
Sasparilla
( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
To: simpson96
Who was going to play Vince Foster?
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:31:06 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
To: simpson96
IBTSTFHP
in before the Spring Time for Hitler post
yes.
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:31:11 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: simpson96
To: teeman8r
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:32:12 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: teeman8r
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:32:46 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
...Completely predictable. Liberals are always giving themselves awards, even for abject failure...
And the bigger the failure, the greater the praise.
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:32:55 PM PDT
by
Sasparilla
( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
To: Texas resident
Who was going to play Vince Foster?I am sure they could dig up some old stiff to play that part...
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:33:17 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: dowcaet
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:34:45 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The producers are probably thinking:
“Well, that didn’t fly, how about a show about the Obamas”
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:35:26 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
To: red-dawg
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:41:01 PM PDT
by
ETL
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To: simpson96
I thought both comedies and horror dramas did well on Broadway?
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:48:46 PM PDT
by
dirtymac
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country! Now)
To: simpson96
Despite the poor performance at the box office, the production earned a Tony nomination Of course it did.
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:49:20 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: simpson96
Darn, my bucket list just got shorter.
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:50:18 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: simpson96
Haha Broadway people.
Now do Trump.
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posted on
06/17/2019 1:57:47 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(The internet has driven the world mad.)
To: simpson96
Wow. And here I thought that Lithgow had thoroughly debased himself as the transsexual football player in
The World According to Garp. Guess he felt he could sink even lower.
Too bad the theater seats didn't come with a supply of overripe tomatoes. The play could've been a smash hit, even factoring in the cost of the daily scrubbing and hose-down.
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posted on
06/17/2019 2:03:49 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: All
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posted on
06/17/2019 2:05:11 PM PDT
by
ETL
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To: Charles Martel
Mental image of the Blues Brothers playing
behind a protective honky tonk screen.
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posted on
06/17/2019 2:10:26 PM PDT
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sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: simpson96; All
Guess they were having a hard time finding an actress with a voice like a rusty farm gate hinge...
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posted on
06/17/2019 2:27:36 PM PDT
by
redhead
(PRAYfor little ones inpedo pipeline:child livestock: raped, tortured, and satanically sacrificed.)
To: simpson96
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