Billy Elliot the Forum

Looks like the home of the Mouse is the latest addition to next season's continuation of the tour, February 15-26, 2012.

http://orlandotheater.wordpress.com/201 ... ay-series/

It look as though some future tours are being shortened by a week or so - both Orlando and Atlanta in 2012 are 12 days in length, unlike the 19 days that BEM will be here in Tampa this year. The Straz in Tampa was quite full the first 11 days; last Wednesday it was less than half full - a pity since Giuseppi was on particularly brilliant form (as was the entire cast)!

Subscription tickets are already going on sale.

http://orlando.broadwayworld.com/articl ... e_20110218

At least the theater there is more reasonably sized at 2,518 seats. A new venue, the Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center, is scheduled to open in 2012, though probably not in time for Billy's visit there. That theater will have slightly more seats at 2,800.

Valentine's plan has now been made for next year!! This is incredible!!!!

With BETM only an hour away, it's probably a good thing it is only 12 days. I'm already broke from the addiction. Oh well, I have a year to save!

Thanks, Ellen, for the great news.

Michael

kport,

I heard the same thing when we were in Tampa last Saturday. The staff told us that once the patrons had all been there in the first week or so, the audience was thinning out. I'm thinking about going back on Sunday for the last day. The matinee looks like it has a couple hundred seats left, but there look to be alot more seats open for the evening performance.

Michael

Porchesrule,

You're probably hearing the same things I am, but it seems like DPAC is on as stable a ground lately as the bullet train to Tampa. I do hope they can come up with the funds soon.

Michael

cainmac wrote:kport,

I heard the same thing when we were in Tampa last Saturday. The staff told us that once the patrons had all been there in the first week or so, the audience was thinning out. I'm thinking about going back on Sunday for the last day. The matinee looks like it has a couple hundred seats left, but there look to be alot more seats open for the evening performance.

Michael

These huge venues (with more than double the seating capacity of the VP or the Imperial) are just too big to fill for a prolonged run, but hopefully two weeks will be the optimum period to balance the number of performances and ticket sales so that the houses will not have so many empty seats.

Orlando Broadway's official twitter announces a way to win tickets for the BETM Tour stop there:

https://twitter.com/#!/OrlandoBroadway